Lewis Thomas Quotes

There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, the best business people, the best coaches. So one thing is not going to make or break a person.

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

No man is infallible.

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

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Humans make mistakes.

Nobody is completely perfect.

Nobody's perfect. Even the most successful people make serious mistakes.

Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes.

Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.

Reasonable people can make reasonable mistakes.

I am human, and of course I can make mistakes, even if nobody allows them.

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

You're going to make errors.

Show me someone who has never made a mistake in their life, and I'll show you a liar. It happens.

No one is infallible. I am not the only director who has flopped.

Nobody is perfect. Even Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo can sometimes look like players from League One.

I make mistakes all the time!

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

The best people make mistakes.

To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

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.

Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.

Don't think that I'm - I'd- I'm infallible. Will always make mistakes.