#fallible

It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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

— Jorge Luis Borges

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The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

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Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. ↗