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#fallibility

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One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.


Bill Ford


#being #believe #ceos #close #companies

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.


Neil Gaiman


#humor #humor

We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.


Raquel Cepeda


#educational-inequity #educational-system #infallibility #miseducation #age

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.


Shelby Foote


#fallibility #humility #leadership #home

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty.


Herman Melville


#human-nature #humanity #infallibility #nature

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.


Lewis Thomas


#agency #any #connected #dangerous #entrusted

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.


Jimmy Carter


#any #applicable #basic #basic principles #beings

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.


Vincent Van Gogh


#cannot #even #fall #fallibility #get

The laws of men are not infallible.


Wayne Gerard Trotman


#infallibility #law #laws #men #people

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.


Naomi Weisstein


#certainty #describing #found #infallibility #nature






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