Unreliable Quotes

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

  Paul Theroux

  Gains, Reputation, Modest

  Paul Theroux (1986). “Sunrise with Seamonsters”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all.

  Nido R Qubein

  Jobs, People, Principles

  Nido R. Qubein (1997). “Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement”, Wiley

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• The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, World

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• Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.

  Anaxagoras

  Philosophy, Mind, Important

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• My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Humorous, Profound, Insane

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• Still, accomplishment is unreliable. "Succeeding," whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it), and there's the very real danger that "succeeding" will take up your whole life, while the big questions go untended.

  George Saunders

  Real, Mean, Accomplishment

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.48, A&C Black

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• Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hype, Obscure, Intention

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• First impressions are always unreliable.

  Franz Kafka

  First Impression, Firsts, Impression

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• I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a child’s ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal energy. He enjoyed food and drink. He liked to try new things. He brought home coconuts, papayas, mangoes, and urged them on our reluctant conservative selves. On Sundays he liked to discover new places, take us on endless bus or trolley rides to some new park or beach he knew about. He always counseled daring, in whatever situation, the courage to test the unknown, an instruction that was thematically in opposition to my mother’s.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Mother, Beach, Children

  E.L. Doctorow (2010). “World's Fair: A Novel”, p.15, Random House

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• A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

  Leonard Cohen

  Love, Battle, Allies

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.156, Emblem Editions

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• Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Spiritual, Men, Effort

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• Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

  Evan Esar

  Business, Definitions, Statistics

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• Don't doubt your faith; doubt your doubts for they are unreliable.

  T. B. Joshua

  Doubt

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• What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability.

  Charlie Munger

  Sloth, Unreliability, Answers

  "Charlie Munger USC Law Commencement Speech- May 2007 3/5". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. January 19, 2010.

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

  Lillian Hellman

  Book, Telling The Truth, Tricky

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• Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality?

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Reality, World, Shifting

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.64, Harvard University Press

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• Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in them.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Truth, May, Sometimes

  'A New Model of the Universe' (2nd ed., 1934) preface

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• Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

  Charles Stanley

  Philosophy, Men, Fleeting

  Charles F. Stanley (2012). “Turning the Tide: Real Hope, Real Change”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Opponents, Situation, Knows

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.84, Princeton University Press

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• I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.

  Anne Fadiman

  Believe, Book, Scotch

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Love, Money, Men

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 6, p. 161, 1977.

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• The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable. To my mind, the plausibility of internalist views about justification is dramatically decreased when one becomes vividly aware of what introspection and reflection actually achieve.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Reflection, Views, Worry

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

  Joyce Meyer

  Feelings, Trusted

  Joyce Meyer (2011). “Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• [Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. That's what scientists mean when they talk about a theory: not a dreamy and unreliable speculation, but an explanatory statement that fits the evidence. They embrace such an explanation confidently but provisionally - taking it as their best available view of reality, at least unil some severely conflicting data or some better explanation might come along.

  David Quammen

  Mean, Reality, Views

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• In fact global warming has stopped and a cooling is beginning. No climate model has predicted a cooling of the Earth – quite the contrary. And this means that the projections of future climate are unreliable.

  Henrik Svensmark

  Mean, Climate, Earth

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