A Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese - Scientist
Born: 1960

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.

Mary Astell

If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.

John Bunyan

You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven

Martin Buber

Why were we driven out of Paradise? Why did we fall into this gnawing disease of unappeasable dissatisfaction? Not because we sinned. Ah, no. All the animals in Paradise enjoyed the sensual passion of coition. Not because we sinned. But because we got sex into our head.

D. H. Lawrence

Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.

Jerry Bridges

Justified means just as if you've never sinned.

Joyce Meyer

There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.

H. L. Mencken

You're never so bad you can't have a Savior, no matter how much you've sinned.

Tim Kimmel

I am a man more sinned against than sinning

William Shakespeare

Only the highest souls realize and accept that he who sins is far more to be pitied, aye, and loved, if love is what the highest human passion should be, than is the one against whom the sinner has sinned.

Louise Jordan Miln

One who has sinned cannot escape retribution in any other way than by repentance corresponding to his sin.

Marcus Eremita

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

Ida B. Wells

Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words

William Faulkner

But the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers of it have accumulated. Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous. God forgive me, for I have sinned.

Lauren Oliver

We are generally punished by where we have sinned.

Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

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