I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Humans are fallible but not so flawed that they make mistakes without error.
- In plain terms
- No one is so foolish that they are wrong about everything.
- What can you take from it?
- Accept that everyone makes mistakes but also has insight.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What counts as being right enough?
- Can anyone be consistently correct?
Another view
It assumes all humans have some capacity for truth which may not hold in extreme cases.
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