Definition of Fallible

Fallible

Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.

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Fallible Quotations

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
James Madison

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
Albert Ellis

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Jorge Luis Borges

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
Mary Wollstonecraft

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
Nicola Abbagnano

Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting.
Gunter Grass

I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.
Daniel Okrent

Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window.
Delia Smith

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
Michael Ledeen