Top 25 Fallible Quotes

America may be a fallible democracy. But when the president sacrifices the national interest for his personal interest, we can show that unlike other countries, we have a remedy.

There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible.

I think it’s really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible – and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so it’s good to see people in the media representing all of those things.

It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!

To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible – that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.

I’d grown accustomed to seeing myself as someone who, if fallible and unworthy, had nevertheless managed to do one thing well enough to get recognition for it.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

I don’t have time to beat myself up over my fallible nature. Instead I use my energy to learn from my past and let it inform my future. It’s time to own all of our glory, mistakes, mess and light and be gentle to ourselves. Let’s be kind to our spirits and celebrate the truth of our hearts.

Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life, his mother and sister in particular.

I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.

Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window.

I’ve always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.

The Bible was written by fallible human beings.

I think that the general public understands that its own doctors are human, fallible, and flawed.

I think Bond the character is distinct: He’s British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he’s incorruptible… he’s a classical hero, but he’s also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he’s a romantic.

I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.

Try to remember that decisions are made by individual, fallible personalities, not gods. It’s hard. I know.

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don’t make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and I’m aware of the fact that memory is fallible, that if I had access to films or some absolute documentary evidence of what happened, it might look different; we get confused and fuzzy.

I recognize that I’m human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.

Our nation’s leaders are fallible. It is therefore time for us to be our own heroes. We can and must be the leaders that are so desperately needed.

I think it’s unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that’s the human condition.

Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it’s the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You’ve got to have faith in something. Believe me.