Quotes on Fallibility

Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their work. Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

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.

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

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?

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

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

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.

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

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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.

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