Zitat des Tages über Fehlbar / Fallible:
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.
I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
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.
Try to remember that decisions are made by individual, fallible personalities, not gods. It's hard. I know.
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.
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?
Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting.
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.
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window.
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 winning argument against a death penalty.
All of us have a romantic streak in us. That's why we are fallible, aren't we?
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.
I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.
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.
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.