David Hume Quotes

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

No one is wise at all times.

No man is infallible.

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

We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Everyone can err, but Stalin considered that he never erred, that he was always right. He never acknowledged to anyone that he made any mistake, large or small, despite the fact that he made not a few mistakes in the matter of theory and in his practical activity.

Mistakes are made even by priests at the altar.

But what if our intelligence is wrong?

I have been wrong enough times to know that it is always a possibility.

If you make enough decisions in life, you’re bound to make some of them wrong.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

Revolutionaries are not infallible.

Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.

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

Even when you are experienced, sometimes mistakes happen.

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

Not everybody is right all the time.

We are all human, and mistakes are just around the corner, but experience lets you try to avoid them.

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.

I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

The more sure you are, the more wrong you can be.

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.