Fallibility Quotes

Everyone has blind spots, and even the brightest people are no exceptions.

Our intelligence is always imperfect.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

To err is human, to persist is diabolical.

I thought I was bulletproof, and I'm not.

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

We're all human; we all have weaknesses.

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

There will always be mistakes, all teams make mistakes.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

I am wrong all the time.

No, I'm not perfect in any way.

The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

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

Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

Mistakes are normal; everyone makes them.

Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.