Infallible Quotes - Page 6

• In regard to infallibility, I never claimed it; God alone is infallible. His word is true, and in Him is no variableness, or shadow of turning.

  Ellen G. White

  Shadow, Infallibility, Regard

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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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• Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.

  Simon Sinek

  Work, Admitting, Helping

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Sep 16, 2015

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• During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Britain, Late

  Thomas Jefferson (2006). “The Quotable Jefferson”

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• 'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal.

  William Shakespeare

  Beautiful, Art, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.428

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• A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

  Iris Murdoch

  Distance, Acting, World

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.65, Penguin

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• Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your words, and cannot be deceived by them; but what he grasps he grasps with infallible precision, namely the expression that goes with the words, the total, spontaneous, involuntary expressiveness which can never be simulated or faked, as words alone can, too easily.

  Oliver Sacks

  Lying, Expression, Feelings

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• God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.

  Martin Luther

  Doe, Purpose, Pieces

  Martin Luther (2005). “The Bondage of the Will”, p.28, RDMc Publishing

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• Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simple, Physical Science

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• An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Roots, Teeth, Half

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.70, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Fashion, Thinking, Thoughtful

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• Do you call it doubting to write down on a piece of paper that you doubt? If so, doubt has nothing to do with any serious business. But do not make believe; if pedantry has not eaten all the reality out of you, recognize, as you must, that there is much that you do not doubt, in the least. Now that which you do not at all doubt, you must and do regard as infallible, absolute truth.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Believe, Writing, Reality

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.188, Courier Corporation

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• Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

  Christina Stead

  Intuition, May, Messages

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• To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Average, Soul, Together

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

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• ... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.

  C. D. Broad

  Giving, Information, Superstitions

  C.D. Broad (2014). “The Mind and Its Place in Nature”, p.284, Routledge

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• Much as I venerate the name of Newton, I am not obliged to believe that he was infallible. I see ... with regret that he was liable to err, and that his authority has, perhaps, sometimes even retarded the progress of science.

  William P. Young

  Regret, Believe, Names

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• An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every one of his demands will oblige you to stop short at last, after he has become a little headstrong.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Children, Passion, Childhood

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.55

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• Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.

  Robert Recorde

  Art, Mathematical, Borrowed

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• Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute.

  Freeman Dyson

  Religious, Arrogance, Dogma

  Freeman J Dyson (2015). “Birds and Frogs: Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson, 1990–2014”, p.192, World Scientific Publishing Company

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• As a man of the Congress, let me reaffirm my conviction that the collective wisdom of our two great legislative bodies while not infallible will in the end serve the people faithfully and very, very well.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Men, Two, People

  Gerald R. Ford's Address After Taking the Oath of Office as Vice President, www.nytimes.com. December 7, 1973.

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• No infallible oracle out of the breast.

  Frederic Henry Hedge

  Oracles, Breasts, Conscience

  Frederic Henry Hedge (1866). “Reason in Religion”, p.205

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• The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.

  O. S. Hawkins

  Bible, Blessed, Church

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• I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.

  Bill Maher

  Catholic, Police, Church

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• The Bible is the inerrant ... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible,without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Humor, Errors

  Jerry Falwell (1982). “Finding inner peace and strength”, Doubleday Books

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• Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered one of the two, books or men. I often hear men prizing their solitude but that is only because there are still men somewhere on earth even though in the far distance. I knew nothing of books when I came forth from the womb of my mother, and I shall die without books, with another human hand in my own. I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human being looking at me.

  Martin Buber

  Mother, Distance, Book

  Martin Buber (1963). “Pointing the way: collected essays. Edited and translated with an introd. by Maurice S. Friedman”

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