There is not a single person who has avoided making a mistake throughout their life, or perhaps even their day. But also, no one, or at least very few, accepts fallibility as tolerable. Throughout history, there have been people who refused to make mistakes, which often led to discouragement. Even though everyone wants to be right, fallibility is a necessary step to avoid harm and improve the world. Nobody wants to be wrong. It is associated with “shame, stupidity, ignorance, indolence, psychopathology and moral degeneration” (Schulz). Additionally, as people, we delight in other people's mistakes as much as in our own correctness, which has created an environment in which being wrong is unnerving to the point of possible and legitimate fear. But not only does our society make us afraid of making mistakes, but so does life. Our existence depends on precise conclusions (Schulz). If humans could not draw accurate conclusions, then death would come extremely prematurely for every person; therefore, the fear of being wrong is completely legitimate, but it is also slightly hollow. Everyone is wrong at some point. Augustine said “fallor ergo sum”, which means “I am wrong therefore I am” (Schulz). Being wrong is not only part of who we are, but it also makes us who we are. Fallibility is human and makes each person who they are. It can allow us to change our worldview, learn and look through a “window into normal human nature”. Of course, the feeling of omniscience seems to be the natural state of the human mind, while the opposite is usually true. Being wrong is a bit like death in the sense that it happens to everyone and very few people can accept it (Schulz). So, can we just learn a lot and know everything so as not to make mistakes? Quite the contrary, like Ro...... middle of paper ......olumbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. © 2012 The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia © 2012, ColumbiaUniversity Press. Licensed by Columbia University Press. Used with permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Publisher: The Columbia University Press. Place of publication: Not available. Year published: 2013. Clinton, Bill. "'I misled people.'" The White House. Washington DC, August 17, 1998. The place of history. Np, and Web. February 23, 2014..Caesar, Julius. Civil wars. Trans. WA McDevitte and WS Bohn. Np:np, sd Internet classics. Internet. March 24, 2014..Burton, Robert. Being certain: believing that you are right even when you are not.Np: St. Martin's Griffin, 2009. Print.