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  • Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself.

  • Only when I fall do I get up again.

    Vincent van Gogh, Anthon Gerhard Alexander Rappard (ridder van), Anthon van Rappard (1936). “Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885”
  • You and I may only be mortals, with all the foolishness and fallibility that that state implies, but we're mortals made in the image of heaven. The gods can't do their work without us. So let's be bold, in their cause and in our own. It's our job, we humans, to make manifest that which is unmanifest-and to raise into consciousness, in this material dimension, that which had been known before only in heaven.

    Jobs   Heaven   May  
  • In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin

    Life   Stress   Fall  
    Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”
  • The only universal attribute of scientific statements resides in their potential fallibility. If a claim cannot be disproven, it does not belong to the enterprise of science.

    Doe   Claims   Attributes  
    Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms”, p.155, Harvard University Press
  • When men have appreciated the countless differences which the exercise of that judgment must necessarily produce, when they have estimated the intrinsic fallibility of their reason, and the degree in which it is distorted by the will, when, above all, they have acquired that love of truth which a constant appeal to private judgment at last produces, they will never dream that guilt can be associated with an honest conclusion, or that one class of arguments should be stifled by authority.

    Dream   Exercise   Men  
    William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1870). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.72
  • If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

    Hypnosis   Shoes   Pairs  
    Marxism Today, January 1988.
  • It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

    Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.292, Cambridge University Press
  • 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, Anthon Gerhard Alexander Rappard (ridder van), Anthon van Rappard (1936). “Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885”
  • Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) choices are not known, Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

    Mistake   Data   Choices  
    Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.320, Penguin
  • Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

    "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.
  • I still had the same frustration with trying to play [Edward Cullen], the entire way through, right up until the last shot. It's a strange part because, on the one hand, a lot of the audience projects their idea of Edward[Cullen] onto him. It doesn't matter what he is. They want him to be a certain way. And then, my instincts were to try and play it and to try to find the fallibility in him and the weaknesses.

    Source: www.moviesonline.ca
  • One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most intricate and complex of man's handiworks. The management of this complex craft will demand our best use of new languages and systems, our best adaptation of proven engineering management methods, liberal doses of common sense, and a God-given humility to recognize our fallibility and limitations.

    Humility   Men   Race  
  • Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience-that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible-that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

    Mean   Errors   Giving  
    Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.999, Penguin
  • Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

    Men   Errors   Ideas  
  • Our failure was that our intelligence community thought [Saddam Hussein ] had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction. That was a mistake. There is fallibility in human intelligence and in human decisions.

    Source: www.egonzehnder.com
  • Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 5, 1799.
  • To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

    Love   Relationship   God  
    Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952”
  • To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

    "Twelve Virtues of Rationality". Personal Website, yudkowsky.net.
  • Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny. Be aware of human fallibility. Cherish your species and your planet.

  • 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, Carl Cederström, Todd Kesselman (2011). “Impossible Objects”, p.33, Polity
  • Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window

  • Our greatest challenge today is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction.

    Kirk J. Schneider (1990). “The Paradoxical Self: Toward an Understanding of Our Contradictory Nature”, Prometheus Books
  • 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 (1997). “Contact”, p.169, Simon and Schuster
  • 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, where are we to stop?

    A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)
  • Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility that goes with human judgment, can rate them, and that at least an attempt is made to measure their worth to an organization in relative terms, they are likely to sink back on length of service as the sole reason for retention and promotion.

  • As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

    Exercise   Men   Long  
    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.48, Coventry House Publishing
  • To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, it might stop one being so utterly convinced of the certainty of one's own solutions. There needs to be a strong understanding of fallibility and how the very act of certainty or authoritativeness can bring disasters.

    Strong   Art   Evil  
  • Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an unspoken agreement whereby we are given leave to bend the rules of the strictest morality, provided we do so quietly and discreetly. Hypocrisy is the grease that keeps society functioning in an agreeable way, by allowing for human fallibility and reconciling the seemingly irreconcilable human needs for order and pleasure.

    Agreement   Hands   Order  
    "The Journalist and the Murderer". Book by Janet Malcolm, 1989.
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