The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something. — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I'm not religious anymore, but I think it's like papal infallibility, which is a ridiculous man-made tenet, like what I believe most… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
In regard to infallibility, I never claimed it; God alone is infallible. His word is true, and in Him is no variableness,… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found… — Naomi Weisstein Copy Share Image
Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it.… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal,… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
You're only infallible about your own nervous system. You know what's going on in your own nervous system, whatever realities you're creating… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
How can you claim infallibility and claim that in these 114 [drone] strikes there was just one mistake -- one person killed… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
“One of the strangest phenomena of our time, and one that will probably be a matter of astonishment to our decedents, is… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification, the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
For a pediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest denying the… — Robert S. Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In fact, we are often more interesting and sympathetic as human beings when something has gone wrong than when we are convinced… — Barbara Moses Copy Share Image
An effort to declare the ban on contraception ‘infallible’ would have the immediate effect of focusing Catholic dissent on the doctrine of… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“When interpreted as infallible, the truth claims of powerful institutions — whether religious or secular — tend to emphasise the fallibility of… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
All the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears - you don't believe in God or them… — Evadne Price Copy Share Image
Papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy are the two ecclesiastical versions of this human idolatry. Both papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy require widespread… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The infallibility and inerrancy of biblical teaching does not, however, guarantee the infallibility and inerrancy of any interpretation or interpreter of that… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin,… — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
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