Pliny the Elder Quotes

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

No man is invincible.

Unfortunately I am a human being and not a robot.

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

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

Man's freedom is finite and fallible

I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.

The fact that we're all here in these bodies means that we're not perfected.

I'm not immortal. I'm not unbeatable.

I'm only human.

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

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

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

I'm only a human being.

Human nature is weak.

I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.