Unreliable Quotes

My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.

— Vladimir Nabokov

We are unreliable narrators - all of us.

— Ruth Ware

Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.

— Chris French

“I am reliably unreliable.”

— Steven Magee

Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.

— Terry Pratchett

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

— Karl Kraus

There is so much unreliable information on the internet and in the media.

— Gavin Esler

If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity.

— Josh McDowell

I know I love a novel with an unreliable narrator, and I think many readers do as well.

— Fiona Barton

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

— Will Rogers

I once terminated a partnership with a chap who proved--unreliable. As a matter of fact, I terminated him.

— Edward Bernds

If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.

— Anonymous

Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is…

— P.D. Ouspensky

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by…

— Nick Cave

Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it…

— Anna Funder

There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.

— Walt Mossberg

People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain…

— Nido R Qubein

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

— Idries Shah

When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very…

— Jeffrey Kluger

Human beings are infinitely fallible, completely unreliable. Science is not. Science is absolute. Under strict principles, if you do A and B,…

— David Baldacci

We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We…

— Paul Kurtz

The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable.…

— Hilary Kornblith

We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on…

— Adrienne Rich

Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible…

— Ray Comfort

These types of films that are psychologically sort of dark at times, I find extremely exciting to do because there's always something…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I hide my true feelings to avoid causing you trouble or pain, I act strong to show you that I'm not unreliable,…

— Harriet Morgan

I would argue that search has made the world a better place. It has done so for reasons that arbitrarily could completely…

— Jonathon Keats

If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Imaginary testing is unreliable, and in many cases, it's a huge waste of time and energy. In truth you just don't know…

— Steve Pavlina

We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian…

— Max Nordau

When we are relaxed and reasonable content, we are naturally wise. We accept that life is unpredictable, unreliable. We say jokingly or…

— Sylvia Boorstein

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

— Lillian Hellman

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

— Paul Theroux

“I was truly shocked at how unreliable the Desoto Solar Farm was!”

— Steven Magee

The underlying problem with solar and wind is that they are too unreliable and energy-dilute.

— Michael Shellenberger

Our feelings about how we're feeling are notoriously unreliable.

— Ariel Garten

“Cars typically become unreliable after a decade of use.”

— Steven Magee

Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.

— Peter Boghossian