{"quotes":[{"text":"When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two theologians differ, since there is no criteria to which either can appeal, there is nothing for it but mutual hatred and an open or covert appeal to force.","author":"Bertrand Russell","tags":["argument","belief","disagreement","fallibility","force","infallible","science"],"id":18871,"author_id":"Bertrand+Russell"},{"text":"We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.","author":"Ian McDonald","tags":["fallibility","foolishness","history","invincibility","youth"],"id":25410,"author_id":"Ian+McDonald"},{"text":"The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.","author":"Richard M. Weaver","tags":["arrogance","fallibility","hubris"],"id":30292,"author_id":"Richard+M.+Weaver"},{"text":"We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state.","author":"Will Durant","tags":["disillusionment","fallibility","humility","realism"],"id":31607,"author_id":"Will+Durant"},{"text":"As Schulz himself has pointed out, Snoopy is capable of being 'one of the meanest' members of the entire Peanuts cast ... He is lazy, he is a 'chow-hound' without parallel, he is bitingly sarcastic, he is frequently a coward, and he often becomes quite weary of being what he is basically -- a dog. He is, in other words, a fairly drawn caricature for what is probably the typical Christian.","author":"Robert L. Short","tags":["christians","fallibility","frailty","human-nature","snoopy"],"id":36050,"author_id":"Robert+L.+Short"},{"text":"No one really remembers anything five minutes after it happens.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["fallibility","forgetting","memory"],"id":47452,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"The trait [Morey] looked for was awareness that they were seeking answers to questions with no certain answers--that they were inherently fallible. 'I always ask them, 'Who did you miss?'' he said. Which future superstar had they written off, or which future bust had they fallen in love with? 'If they don't give me a good one, I'm like, 'Fuck 'em.","author":"Michael Lewis","tags":["fallibility","humility","morey","uncertainty"],"id":112876,"author_id":"Michael+Lewis"},{"text":"Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.","author":"Meister Eckhart","tags":["fallibility","truth","zen"],"id":120602,"author_id":"Meister+Eckhart"},{"text":"A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice. The stunned champ cried while inspecting the machine, 'There's a man in there!'Lincoln's good news, he confided from the heights of leadership, was that there was in fact a man in there.","author":"Shelby Foote","tags":["compassion","fallibility","humility","leadership"],"id":124795,"author_id":"Shelby+Foote"},{"text":"Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing was a choice swollen with omnipotence. It was, in fact, godly.And this, she now realized, was the reason why the gods did nothing. Proof of their omniscience. After all, to act was to announce awful limitations, for it revealed that chance acted first, the accidents were just that--events beyond the will of the gods--and all they could do in answer was to attempt to remedy the consequences, to alter natural ends. To act, then, was an admission of fallibility.","author":"Steven Erikson","tags":["chance","fallibility","god","godliness","godly","gods","inaction","nothing"],"id":132494,"author_id":"Steven+Erikson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}