#fallibility

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. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#against #argument #best #compelling #criminal

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent. ↗

— Mark Twain

#fallibility #humor #sin #humor

If gold rusts, what then can iron do? ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#fallibility #flaws #gold #imperfection #inspirational

And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#humanity #love

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

— Gerald Brenan

#keeping #opinions #our #sense #views

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

#being #believe #ceos #close #companies

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#agency #any #connected #dangerous #entrusted

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

#cannot #even #fall #fallibility #get

An inspired and infallible passage whose meaning you cannot be sure of is not much more useful than an uninspired, fallible passage. ↗

— Robert M. Price

#infallibly #inspired-books #inspirational