Infallibility Quotes

43 quotes by 39 authors

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular… — Naomi Weisstein
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing… — John Stuart Mill
Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind… — George Bernard Shaw
A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it. — Murray Kempton
Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline. — George F. Kennan
The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes. — Thomas Huxley
Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found? — Marcus Aurelius
The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility. — Freeman Dyson
One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for… — Bill Ford
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth. — Boris Pasternak
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death. — Marquis de Sade
I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something. — Elaine Stritch
A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it… — Jack London
if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our… — John Stuart Mill
knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith — Yevgeny Zamyatin
The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in oneâ€™s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes. — George Orwell
Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not… — Craig Ferguson
Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be… — Craig Ferguson
Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's people's faith. — Dan Brown
The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows. — Thomas Jefferson

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