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Fallibility Quotes

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

"I'm a sinner who's probably going to sin again"

"Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?"

"Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being… there are legitimate expectations, but one must always make room for the fallibility of human nature."

"When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly most mistaken"

"It is no part of my case that I am always right."

"It is not the estimate you make that matters but the error you make in even thinking you can estimate"

"Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument"

"To err is human"

"Spiritual pride is the main spring or at least the main support of all other errors."

"Psychiatry is the study of man, by broken men."

"When experts are wrong, it's often because they're experts on an earlier version of the world"

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong"

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