Fallibility

(179 votes)   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.

Agnes Repplier
1858-1950, American Author, Social Critic

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(170 votes)   The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.

English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin

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(115 votes)   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.

John Cheever
1912-1982, American Author

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(107 votes)   Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(99 votes)   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.

Joseph De Maistre
1753-1821, French Diplomat, Philosopher

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(96 votes)   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.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(65 votes)   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.

Jerome K. Jerome
1859-1927, British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright

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