Fallible Quotes

73 quotes by 66 authors

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. — Jorge Luis Borges
Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for… — Gunter Grass
Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it,… — Louis Pasteur
Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And… — Thomas Jefferson
Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies. — Anatole France
In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the Government… — George Washington
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as… — James Madison
The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to Mistakes… — Hans Sloane
Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them. — Maxwell Perkins
If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another. — Stanley Unwin
Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its… — Diane Ackerman
Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries. — Alexander Hamilton
Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators and… — L.E. Modesitt Jr.
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily… — Stephen Batchelor
Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that… — Karl Popper
I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way. — Anne Enright
Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind. — Edgar Rice Burroughs
I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one. — Daniel Okrent
Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force… — Marilyn Manson
Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not… — George Gaylord Simpson

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