Human Frailties Quotes

• 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

  Frailty, Difficult, Grows

  "Sen. Blanche Lambert Lincoln's closed-door impeachment statement". www.cnn.com. February 12, 1999.

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• 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

  Grace, Needs, Conscious

  George Lewis Prentiss, Elizabeth Prentiss (1987). “The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss”

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• 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

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.330, Princeton University Press

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• I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.330, Princeton University Press

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• 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

  Country, Wall, Years

  "Ethics, Enterprise, and the Multinational Corporation". Religion & Liberty Interview, acton.org. July 20, 2010.

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• Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Artist, Humanity, Vitality

  "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

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• A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

  Anne Stevenson

  Thinking, Poetry, Feelings

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• The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Literature, Bows, Bent

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.337, Wordsworth Editions

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• An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

  Jef Raskin

  Needs, Frailty, Considerate

  Jef Raskin (2000). “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems”, p.6, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Lonely, Superhero, Overcoming

  "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

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• 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

  Forgiveness, Failure, Errors

  Voltaire, André Maurois (1939). “The Living Thoughts of Voltaire”

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• The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

  Daniel Nathans

  Physicians, Glimpse, Frailty

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• 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.

  Men, Faults, Human Nature

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• What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

  Voltaire

  Tolerance, Humanity, Pardon Me

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.497, Voltaire

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• 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

  People, Grace, Saving

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• The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Trying, Frailty, Harder

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• Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Healing, Ignorance, Imperfection

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• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Giving Up, Acceptance, Blow

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• 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

  Dad, Military, Men

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• 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

  Wonderful, Frailty, Humans

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• Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.

  Blaise Pascal

  Law, Break Through, Choices

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• Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material advantages as compared with a proletarian wage-system where millions live in semi-starvation, and many millions more in permanent dread thereof. But even if it were administered thus Communism would only produce its benefits through imposing slavery.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Benefits, Slavery

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• 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

  Blessed, Temptation, Together

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a person and as a writer. My parents always told us great stories that often had magical elements and roots within Mexican folklore. Also, I remember my father reading a book to me, when I was very young, about the lives of saints. Those were crazy scary stories! Maybe he was trying to scare me into being a good person. In the end, magical realism offers me untethered freedom to explore human frailty and the way we clumsily cobble together our lives on this strange planet.

  Daniel Olivas

  Crazy, Father, Book

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• By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human nature; by a strong sense of God's love; by long and disciplined realization of the atoning love of Christ; only thus can we get a free, manly, large, princely spirit of forgiveness.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Forgiveness, Strong, Long

  Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”

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