Thomas Merton Quotes

It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.

I'm not a God, I make mistakes.

So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.

We're all human at the end of the day, making mistakes. But learn from them is the key.

No man is infallible.

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

His name is Michael Jackson, not Super Michael Jackson. He makes mistakes just like all of us.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots.

We all make mistakes. I make them all the time.

The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.

I'm not interested in showing the wish of what it looks like to be human. I'm interested in showing what it actually looks like.

To be human is to err, isn't it?

Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.

God sent us here to make mistakes

It's so much more interesting when you're human. I hate making mistakes, but I'm not afraid of 'em.

To be human is erroneous.

Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.

It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.

It makes life so much easier when you can just say 'I'm human' at the end of the day."

Gosh, I made so many mistakes. I mean I still make mistakes. We all do.

And sometimes I think there isn’t anything to us but our mistakes.

Human life must be some form of mistake.

It's all right to make mistakes, you're only humanInside everybody's hiding something.