Famous Quotes - Tags - Fallibility

  • A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent... More
  • Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it. More
  • Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this... More
  • For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with... More
  • I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. More
  • I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t... More
  • If I have any justification for having lived it’s simply, I’m nothing but faults, failures... More
  • In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that... More
  • In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited,... More
  • It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find... More
  • It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. More
  • It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. More
  • It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the... More
  • Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. More
  • Once we began to see our images
    Reflected in the mud and even dust,
    ‘Twas disillusion... More
  • Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm. More
  • One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner. More
  • Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. More
  • The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them. More
  • The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, nearsightedness,... More
  • To be positive. To be mistaken at the top of one’s voice. More
  • We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to... More
  • We are built to make mistakes, coded for error. More
  • We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which... More
  • When women go wrong, men go right after them. More

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