Quotes about Fallibility
I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans.
- George W. Bush
What recourse do we have but to be of mutual help to one another and to forgive those who fall, since we ourselves have already fallen or are about to fall?
- Martin Luther
Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness. DAVID AUGSBURGER
- Paul David Tripp
So that the best believer, if he knows what he says, and says the truth, is but a sinner at the best.
- JC Ryle
We shall do well to remember that, when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.
- JC Ryle
Firm they might have stood, yet fell; remember, and fear to transgress.
- John Milton
Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
- Euripides
To sin is to fall short of a perfect action; hence to be able to sin is to be able to fall short in action, which is repugnant to omnipotence.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken in most instances such a weary while to find out how wrong, that the authority is proved to be fallible.
- Charles Dickens
LORD GORING: (after a long pause) Nobody is incapable of doing a foolish thing. Nobody is incapable of doing a wrong thing.
- Oscar Wilde