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Fallibility | It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
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| Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
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| Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.
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| We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
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| The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
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| Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers.
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| It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
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| Once we know our weaknesses, they cease to do us any harm.
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| In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.
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| It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
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| If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
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| It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
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| The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.
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| In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.
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| Error is a hardy plant: It flourisheth in every soil.
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