Infallibility Quotes - Page 2

• It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)

  Jack London

  Futility Of Life, Laughing, Effort

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• Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

  Ted Turner

  Men, World, Dangerous Man

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• An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Funny, Humor, Method

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• The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of Germany and England moved leisurely in the lines of religious evolution, the mind of France leaped from the hot faith which had massacred the Huguenots to the cold hostility with which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, and Diderot turned upon the religion of the fathers.

  Will Durant

  Religious, Father, House

  "Story of Philosophy".

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• Papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy are the two ecclesiastical versions of this human idolatry. Both papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy require widespread and unchallenged ignorance to sustain their claims to power. Both are doomed as viable alternatives for the long- range future of anyone.

  John Shelby Spong

  Ignorance, Biblical, Two

  John Shelby Spong (1994). “Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity”, Harpercollins

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• The infallibility and inerrancy of biblical teaching does not, however, guarantee the infallibility and inerrancy of any interpretation or interpreter of that teaching; nor does the recognition of its qualities as the Word of God in any way prejudge the issue as to what Scripture does, in fact, assert. This can be determined only by careful Bible study.

  J. I. Packer

  Teaching, Biblical, Issues

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.96, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Isn't the essential pillar of Catholicism papal infallibility? Well, then how can the church ever change its mind about anything unless God gets confused one day? Not all religions claim the direct authority of God speaking to their leader. You know, I'm an atheist, but I'm a Puritan atheist.

  Dave Foley

  Atheist, Confused, Leader

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• Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

  John Burroughs

  Claims, Made, Theologian

  John Burroughs (1900). “Writings: The light of day”

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• Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Faith, Teacher, Generations

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.163, Princeton University Press

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• Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  "We". Book by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924.

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• 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

  Leader, Unbroken, Records

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.92, New York Review of Books

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• 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

  Littles, Found, Certainty

  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome.), Alice Zimmern (189?). “Meditations”

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• It is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It is the undertaking to decide that question for others, without allowing them to hear what can be said on the contrary side. And I denounce and reprobate this pretension not the less, if put forth on the side of my most solemn convictions.

  John Stuart Mill

  Feelings, Doctrine, May

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Bible, Self, Dogma

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays”, p.40, tredition

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• In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.

  John Buchan

  Heaven, World, Earth

  John Buchan (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Buchan (Illustrated)”, p.754, Delphi Classics

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• If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, 'Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus' [always, everywhere, and by all], as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility.

  James G. Frazer

  Hands, Catholic, Magic

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification, the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided issuing solemn dogmatic definitions backed by the Church's infallible teaching authority. The answer is known by those who remember the conciliar declaration of March 6, 1964, repeated on November 16, 1964. In view of the pastoral nature of the Council, it avoided proclaiming in an extraordinary manner any dogmata carrying the mark of infallibility.

  Pope Paul VI

  Teaching, Past, Views

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• 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 in existence. Compared with our infallible democracies, our infallible medical councils, our infallible astronomers, our infallible judges, and our infallible parliaments, the Pope is on his knees in the dust confessing his ignorance before the throne of God, asking only that as to certain historical matters on which he has clearly more sources of information open to him than anyone else his decision shall be taken as final.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Taken, Ignorance, Dust

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4082, e-artnow

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• 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 out of the infinite flux of being. You don't know anything about anybody else's reality unless they tell you about it. You gotta listen very sympathetically in order to understand them. So it's a limited infallibility.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Order, Creating

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• A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin, indulgences, the infallibility of the pope, or obedience to any church official if it is against my conscience. I am not interested in earning "merit" or in being saved by priestly incantation.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Christian, Fear, Believe

  Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.475, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• 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 broken and are. Often.

  Craig Ferguson

  Men, Law, Broken

  Craig Ferguson (2007). “Between the Bridge and the River”, p.208, Chronicle Books

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• The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Past, Secret

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.164, Arcturus Publishing

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• A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional objectivity. It would be more nearly true to say that it is based upon wonder, adventure and hope.

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

  Adventure, Science, Emotional

  "Chemistry in Britain". Quoted in E.J. Bowen's obituary of Hinshelwood, "Chemistry in Britain", Vol. 3, 536, 1967.

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• I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.

  Paul Jacob

  Support, Death Penalty, Judgment

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• 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

  Government, Expression, People

  Dan Brown (2006). “Angels & Demons Special Illustrated Edition: A Novel”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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