Quotes of: Fallible Keyword

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and ...

Eliot Spitzer

Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it nece...

On Liberty

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

Daniel Kahneman

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

Life

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.

Columbus Short

My main concern is with the world order

The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.

The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror

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

Roxane Gay

The anti-resource curse initiative has stronger legs than most and that has made me very enthusiastic.

The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror

What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe

How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

I now want to examine a second major feature of Western civilization that derives from Christianity. This is what philosopher Charles Taylor calls the 'affirmation of ordinary life.' It is the simple idea that ordinary people are fallible, and yet th...

What's So Great About Christianity

For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, "Can I believe this?", but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, "Must I believe this?

How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.

How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence

How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient, however, in evaluating and testing our ideas once they are formed

How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Gerald Brenan

You are human and fallible.

Jane Eyre

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

Jorge Luis Borges

When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas e...

How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

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

Daniel Okrent

The Bible was written by fallible human beings.

Richard Dawkins