Fallibility Quotes

A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent...

The democratic age mourns the value of human beings.

We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it...

Even as to himself, a man cannot pretend to know what he is in himself from the knowledge he has by ...

Fallibility in a leader is very trying. Isn’t it? They spill so much of other people’s blood.

Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted i...

The trait [Morey] looked for was awareness that they were seeking answers to questions with no certa...

Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and p...

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of...

A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive...

Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the ...

Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing...

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ea...

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

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus...

I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God's justice.

When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence...