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The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility. — Simon Critchley

You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility. — Carl Sagan

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. — Gerald Brenan

Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go. — Jonathan Haidt

We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up. — Ian McDonald

The emperor is just a man, after all. — Ken Liu

You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. — Winston S. Churchill

When you demand perfection within yourself, you become more fallible. — Bryant McGill

To really have that awareness, to be as open as possible, all the time, to beauty and cruelty and stupid human fallibility and unexpected grace. — Joel Lovell

When you accept fallibility within yourself you become more perfect. — Bryant McGill

An inspired and infallible passage whose meaning you cannot be sure of is not much more useful than an uninspired, fallible passage. — Robert M. Price

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. — Vincent Van Gogh

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility. — Ayelet Waldman

The fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading. — George Eliot

Embracing human frailty, fallibility, and heartbreaking aloneness is crucial for any person seeking to attain self-actualization and self-realization. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I'm a fallible human being - but if I were to react to that knowledge with fear/defensiveness then how would I move forward? — Jay Woodman

A fuller vision comes from our ability to recognize the fallibility in our current and past forms of sight. — Sarah Lewis

The democratic age mourns the value of human beings. — Harold Bloom

The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations. — Robert McNamara

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. — Nicola Abbagnano

The fallibility of human beings guarantees that no technological system will ever be infallible. — Eric Schlosser

Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record. — D. V. Ager

I have to accept that difficult stuff happens & there's no point in getting worked up about it. I'm a fallible human being ... — Jay Woodman

We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state. — Will Durant

I shall try. At best, I am human. No less subject than any to mortal limits and fallible resource. — Janny Wurts

Contradiction is the perfect evidence, he (Lincoln) thought, of human fallibility. — Elton Trueblood

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

It is impossible not to make mistakes during a war. — Roma Tearne

If gold rusts, what then can iron do? — Geoffrey Chaucer

Intelligence is not a prerequisite for safe flying, but an acceptance of human fallibility is, and the two are generally linked. — William Langewiesche

No one really remembers anything five minutes after it happens. — Marty Rubin

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. — Meister Eckhart

Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says. — Sigmund Freud

Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill. — Paul C. Nagel

Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society. — Justin Welby

I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God's justice. — Alexis De Tocqueville