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“It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has the most character.”

Character Perfect Personality Human Perfection Characteristics Imperfection Attributes Imperfect Traits Uniqueness Qualities Fallible

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is fallible, or that our own blank, innocent ignorance can destroy the pure, the good, and the loved are moments the very memory of which constitutes the beginning of a strategy to live in a world where such horrors exist.”

Moments Ignorance Friends Authority Strategy Memory Betrayal Mothers Fathers Horrors Fallible

Book:The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village

Source: The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village

“Camomille: Fallible men write books. God writes in sunlight and rivers and planets. Isn't the Universe a good book? I trust it above the printed kind.”

Men Inspirational God Universe Trust Books Planets Rivers Sunlight Write Printed Fallible

Book:Sailor Twain: Or: The Mermaid in the Hudson

Source: Sailor Twain: Or: The Mermaid in the Hudson

“But perhaps the most overlooked feature of her life was that she was human, and therefore fallible.”

Book:Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956

Source: Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956

“The...act of surrender—or devotion, as the case may be—was, to him, a kind of lifeline for those who sought a quick answer and didn’t want to stick around long enough to see their doubt through to its ultimate conclusion. A conclusion, which, of itself, was a bittersweet paradox—for how could doubt simply cease to exist by any stretch of the imagination? Doubt was, nonetheless—from his own perspective—the only inclusive insight into the nature of a Truth exclusive of conditions.”

Truth Doubt Surrender Devotion Paradox Blind Faith Epistemology Self Delusion Easy Answers Fallible

Book:Don't Forget to Breathe

Source: Don't Forget to Breathe

“I'm a fallible human being - but if I were to react to that knowledge with fear/defensiveness then how would I move forward?”

Fear Fallibility React Defensiveness Fallible Fallibility And Attitude

Author:Jay Woodman

“Vincent Marc Hoherz on infallibility. The only way to infallibility is to confess to one's fallibility.”

Confession Infallible Fallibility Infallibility Confess Fallible

Book:Forever shall we be, eternally.

Source: Forever shall we be, eternally.

“Organised religion is a contradiction in terms - it's the fallible meeting the infallible. Any earthly, bureaucratic representation of a higher power will prove to be inherently problematic.”

Religion Bureaucracy Infallible Higher Power Organised Religion Fallible

Author:Stewart Stafford

“Parsimony is always in the forefront of a scientist's mind when choosing between theories, but it isn't always obvious how to judge it.”

Science Fallible Self Corrective

Book:The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

Source: The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

“Yet it is unassailably true that so long as we lack omniscience and do not know all of the future, all our generalizations are fallible or only probable. And the history of human error shows that a general consensus, or widespread and unquestioned feeling of certainty, does not preclude the possibility that the future may show us to be in error.”

Certainty Error Omniscience Generalizations Probable Fallible

Book:An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method

Source: An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method

“One of the greatest ever statement that can keep you at peace with others is that "I am right, but I may be wrong"! Yes, we know you are right but you may be wrong!”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes