Fallible Quotes

73 quotes by 66 authors

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility. — Freeman Dyson
I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition. — Albert Ellis
Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that. — Daniel Kahneman
I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of… — Daniel Kahneman
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. — James Madison
We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are… — Chris Pine
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of… — Eliot Spitzer
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power,… — Mary Wollstonecraft
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of… — Atul Gawande
The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted. — Charlotte Bronte
Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the… — Sam Harris
Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always… — John Stuart Mill
The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but… — Ming-Dao Deng
You are human and fallible. — Charlotte Bronte
None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right. — William Strunk, Jr.
Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not… — Margaret Atwood
No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop… — Steven Pressfield
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. — Carl Sagan
Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to… — Ray Bradbury
Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be. I… — Cindy Gerard

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