Fallible Quotes

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Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible. — Jacob Bronowski
The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible… — Christopher Hitchens
Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window — Delia Smith
It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible. — Steven Pinker
Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for what is to… — Jacob Bronowski
We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Do I know I'm right? Judgments aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being, as fallible and as… — Tony Blair
I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me to think I'm… — Sylvia Plath
Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he… — Elbert Hubbard
Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you… — Ray Comfort
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would… — C. E. M. Joad
It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing, watching and patching,… — Lewis Thomas
The United States has adventured upon a great and noble experiment . . . of total separation of Church and State. . . . The… — John Tyler
The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the… — Thomas Jefferson
Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it. — Eleanor Bron
I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but… — Barbara Broccoli
Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible. — John Desmond Bernal
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident. — Michael A. Ledeen
I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess. — Grimes

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