Quotes and Sayings about Fallibility

"The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error."
- Hannah Arendt
(Related: Leader, Error)

"Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions."
- Gerald Brenan
(Related: Wisdom, Fallibility, Opinions, Sense)

"One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me."
- Bill Ford
(Related: Life, Management, Being, Company, Growing up)

"That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry."
- Joseph Glanvill
(Related: Belief, Possibility, Being, Certainty)

"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."
- Vincent Van Gogh
(Related: Knowledge, Fallibility, Mistakes)

"As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth."
- Boris Pasternak
(Related: Men, Power, Truth, Myth)

"'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death."
- Marquis de Sade
(Related: Death)

"Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world."
- Naomi Weisstein
(Related: Nature, Women, Certainty, Sense, World)