Quotes about Fallible

It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.

Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.

Reason and experiment have been indulged, and error has fled before them. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.

Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.

As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.