Grimes Quotes

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

We are none of us infallible not even the youngest of us.

I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person.

I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.

We all make mistakes, nobody ever wrote a book saying 'This is how you live your life.'

There are going to be things I'm not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

One of the reasons people might be fallible, why we might fail to do what we try to do isignorance, that we have a limited understanding of the laws of the world - the physical laws that govern the world and of all the particulars of the world upon which those laws work. And then there's ineptitude, meaning that the knowledge is available, but individuals fail to apply it correctly. The third source is "necessary fallibility." That is, we're never going to be omniscient, there is some knowledge that we will simply never achieve, and there are limits to what we will be able to do.

I have never been 100% confident that I am right about anything.

For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.

The truth of the matter is, when you think about it, we all make mistakes.

Everybody makes mistakes, and I am a human being.

I'm not infallible. Never will be.

We don't claim to be infallible. I don't claim to be giving you truths from on high.

Last time I checked, no one is perfect.

We may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman, and yet we do not know him, because we are not a thing, and our fellowman is not a thing. The further we reach into the depths of our being, on someone else's being, the more the goal of knowledge eludes us.

No one is wise at all times.

We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles

Don’t see the mind for more than it is, but don’t misread it for all that it can be.

Well, nobody's perfect.

None is a fool always, everyone sometimes.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.

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.

We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.

I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not always the case. The human heart has a million facets.

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.