Michel de Montaigne Quotes

We are all imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

Nobody's perfect. And if you think they are, you're sadly mistaken.

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

Everybody makes mistakes.

In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

Mistakes are made even by priests at the altar.

No man lives without fault.

Revolutionaries are not infallible.

I don't think that we are a species or a people that can exist without making mistakes somewhere along the line.

I will always make mistakes. I am a human being.

No man, no woman is without their flaws.

I am not a perfect saint, by any means.

President Trump's critics call him an immoral lout. By strict moral standards, so are we all.

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

Smart people are no different than anyone else. Sometimes they exercise bad judgment, like we all do.

I'm doing a lot of mistakes, like every human being.

I don't think anybody is perfect.

Last time I checked, no one is perfect.

Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.

In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.