Infallibility Quotes - Page 3

• I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.

  Elaine Stritch

  Believe, Thinking, Pope

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• For a pediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest denying the infallibility of the pope.

  Robert S. Mendelsohn

  Practice, Vaccines, Bread

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• 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, Regard, Infallible

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• We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins. It was by propagating that belief and supporting it with fire that she kept up her temporal power.

  Thomas Paine

  Religious, Father, Fire

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.341

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• Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress of its reasonings; the perfect exactitude of its results; their broad universality; their practical infallibility.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Stress, Math, Perfect

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

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• Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.

  Charles Fourier

  People, Once Upon A Time, Wish

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• The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost.

  Arthur Koestler

  Believe, Facts, Lost

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• Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

  Peter Drucker

  Leader, Undoing, Charisma

  Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.101, Routledge

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• Perfection in wisdom, as well as in integrity, is neither required nor expected in these agents (public servants). It belongs not to man. The wise know too well their weaknesses to assume infallibility; and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Integrity, Men

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• Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

  Ayn Rand

  Errors, Demand, Morality

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.72, Penguin

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• But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present conception of the Church-with its sacraments, its hierarchy, and especially its claim to infallibility-is to be found in Christ's words or in the conception of the men of his time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Names, Church

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). “The kingdom of God: and peace essays”

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• I'm not religious anymore, but I think it's like papal infallibility, which is a ridiculous man-made tenet, like what I believe most religious tenets to be, are man-made after the fact.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Religious, Believe, Men

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• It is courage the world needs, not infallibility...courage is always the surest wisdom.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Needs, World

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• I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Pope, Boast, Shortcomings

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.842, Everyman's Library

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• The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And this shift from infallibilism to fallibilism has profound consequences not only for toleration, but also for the subordination of faith to reason and theology to philosophy.

  George H. Smith

  Philosophy, Profound, Atheism

  George H. Smith (2000). “Why Atheism?”, Pyr Books

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• Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's personal predilections on a secular political issue is to play God, to assume to oneself the attributes of deity. It cultivates an arrogant intolerance of dissenting viewpoints and relegates one's political adversaries to the category of evil per se.

  Jim Wright

  Self, Play, Issues

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• All the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears - you don't believe in God or them or the infallibility of England or anything but bloody war and wounds and foul smells and smutty stories and smoke and bombs and lice and filth and noise, noise, noise - you live in a world of cold sick fear, a dirty world of darkness and despair - you want to crawl ignominiously home away from these painful writhing things that once were men, these shattered, tortured faces that dumbly demand what it's all about in Christ's name.

  Evadne Price

  War, Believe, Dirty

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• An effort to declare the ban on contraception ‘infallible’ would have the immediate effect of focusing Catholic dissent on the doctrine of infallibility itself. . . . A storm of dissent, and even ridicule, directed at infallibility itself would ensue from such a declaration.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  Effort, Catholic, Storm

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• But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Two, Atheism, Proof

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.178, Penguin

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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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• How can you claim infallibility and claim that in these 114 [drone] strikes there was just one mistake -- one person killed that was a civilian -- and at the same time say, 'Well, we don't really know how many people were killed or who they were, but we know they weren't civilians'? I don't know how you can do that.

  Richard Engel

  Mistake, People, Drones

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• The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.

  Emma Goldman

  Inspired, Authority, Persecution

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• 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 was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of laughter more terrible than any sadness-a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. 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.

  Jack London

  Dog, Laughter, Sadness

  Jack London (1992). “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

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