98 Human Frailties Quotes
Following is our list of human frailties quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about human imperfection.
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Famous Human Frailties Quotes
All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks. — Cyrus the Great
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth. — Alan Rudolph
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. — Francois Mauriac
A man's foibles are what makes him lovable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Your fragility is also your strength. — Pina Bausch
Beauty is a frail good. — Ovid
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. — Seneca The Elder
Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible. — Neville Cardus
So great is human weakness, that we must reckon amongst virtuous actions abstention from the evils which we are tempted to commit. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins. — E. Stanley Jones
Our weaknesses are not as negative as we may believe. They make us rely upon God's grace and power for greater Christlikeness and ministry. — Paul Washer
We all have our flaws. But we overcome them. And sometimes, it's our flaws that make us who we are. — Erin Hunter
God often showcases his power on the stage of human weakness. — Andy Stanley
The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward. — Dillon Burroughs
Short Human Frailties Quotes
- Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
- We’ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking. — Rick Riordan
- A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended. — Ian McEwan
- Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together. — Brené Brown
- Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose. — Proverbs
- We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections. — Sidney Poitier
- Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength. — Dwight L. Moody
- Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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Human Frailty Quotes
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. — Voltaire
Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise. — Henry Clay
You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty. — Bing Crosby
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. — Anne Stevenson
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. — Albert Einstein
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. — Tom Hiddleston
The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace. — Elizabeth Prentiss
I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty. — Walter Bonatti
Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance. — Harold S. Kushner
Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void. — Glen Duncan
Human Imperfection Quotes
For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect. — Mahatma Gandhi
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. — Yohji Yamamoto
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. — George Soros
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. — George Soros
We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect. — Fernando Pessoa
Initially, I felt like my duty was to just keep it positive and be positive and sometimes I crack in that. We're human. I'm imperfect at times and that was just me being imperfect at that one point. — Wale
We can not love everyone and be loved by everyone. It would be perfection, and nothing is perfect in this world. — Paul Pogba
Everyone makes mistakes. Nobody's perfect. — Japanese Proverbs
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. — Jose Marti
False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection. — Vladimir Horowitz
Human Folly Quotes
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. — Yann Martel
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. — Carl Sagan
These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. — David Hume
The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition. — Hilary of Poitiers
History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly. — Jean-Henri Fabre
Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights! — Friedrich Nietzsche
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. — Isaac Asimov
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? — Pat Robertson
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. — Desiderius Erasmus
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 Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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 Cyrus the Great |
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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 Alan Rudolph |
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 Francois Mauriac |
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 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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More Human Frailties Quotes
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms. — Albert Einstein
The human instinct to protect one’s beliefs from the indignity of being challenged transcends an individual’s political orientation. It is a frailty of the human spirit, and as such, it is not restricted to liberals or conservatives. Few people possess the intellectual courage to expose their most cherished positions to opposing perspectives. The human ego is brittle and frail. — Gad Saad
It turns out that justices are also God’s children; and being of this world, their makeup consists of actual flesh and blood. They are no more noble or virtuous than the rest of us, and in some cases less so, as they suffer from the usual human imperfections and frailties. And the Court’s history proves it. — Mark Levin
...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone. — Ellen Swallow Richards
Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal. — Elizabeth Aston
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. — Miguel de Cervantes
Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties. — Blanche Lincoln
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. — Voltaire
My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties. — Kahlil Gibran
An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties. — Jef Raskin
To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational. — William Faulkner
I don't think I've ever been face to face with pure evil, so I don't think I've ever seen it with my own eyes. But I do understand human frailty and I do understand the capacity of people to be intermittently noble and virtuous and fallible. — Tom Hiddleston
It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good. — Tom Hiddleston
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty. — Brooks Atkinson
'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true virtue and honor consist. It rarely, very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not, at least, an honest man, whatever frailties may attend him. — David Hume
We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else. — Lee R. Raymond
The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still. — Daniel Nathans
It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our shared human frailties and be able, at least some of the time, to smile rather than grimace. Like most people, I must have started out with a comic worldview in my cupboard. — Jane Hirshfield
It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it? — George Etherege
Oh, fatherhood has a very humanising effect on a bloke like me in the military. As a dad, you become absolutely aware of your own human frailty and a need to be nurturing and compassionate and fatherly — Peter Cosgrove
Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is. — Thomas Noon Talfourd
Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be able to say that I was the author of "A man's a man for 'a that," than to be perfectly sober and admit that I had lived and died a Scotch Presbyterian. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their work. Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. — Tom Hiddleston
Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith....Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey. Power means strength, whereas love is a human frailty the people mistrust. It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith. — Saul Alinsky
Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse. — Christopher Morley
Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man. — Herbert Hoover
An incubus of ignorance, fear, hunger, oppression and intolerance haunts large regions of the world, and we must have no delusions that we are immune. We must refuse to forget that we too are human, that we too are frail, that we all are subject to such miseries, and in time, we shall all be subject to frailty and suffering. — Bryant H. McGill
We have no obligation whatsoever to uphold any institution, country or idea that does not serve as a humble refuge for all of humanities tender frailties. — Bryant H. McGill
We must refuse to forget that we too are human, that we too are frail, that we all are subject to such miseries, and in time, we shall all be subject to frailty and suffering. — Bryant H. McGill
Utilitarianism is inherently pragmatic - in fact, I prefer to call it "deep pragmatism." Humans have real limitations, obligations, and frailties, so the best policy is to set reasonable goals, given your limitations. Just try to be a little less tribalistic. — Joshua Greene
You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor; and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire. — Kahlil Gibran
And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage. — John Locke
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