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Quotes about fallibility
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 Jerome K.)
Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it. (Jerome Jerome K.)
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. (Jerome Jerome K.)
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. (Jerome Jerome K.)
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 Jerome K.)
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm. (Jerome Jerome K.)
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. (Jerome Jerome K.)
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. (Jerome Jerome K.)
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. (Jerome Jerome K.)
The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them. (Jerome Jerome K.)
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. (Jerome Jerome K.)
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