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Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record. -- D. V. Ager
Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it. -- Eleanor Bron
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. -- Gerald Brenan
For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness. -- Carl Sagan
The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations. -- Robert McNamara
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. -- Tom Hiddleston
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
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident. -- Michael Ledeen
If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
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
In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum. -- Joseph de Maistre
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another. -- John Cheever
Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible. -- Neville Cardus
That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again! -- Vincent Van Gogh
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
Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities. -- Ziauddin Sardar
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved? -- Carl Sagan
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 most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty. -- Eliot Spitzer
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 allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility. -- John Stuart Mill
When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them. -- Jimmy Carter
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. -- Fred Brooks
When you accept fallibility within yourself you become more perfect. -- Bryant McGill
... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading. -- George Eliot
As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility. -- Ayelet Waldman
Human fallibility recognised, Gods sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society. -- Justin Welby
Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society. -- Justin Welby
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
The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too. -- Ayelet Waldman
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. -- Stephen Jay Gould
I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better. -- Rick Moody
Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount of imposture probably unequaled in the annals of the human race. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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