Infallible Quotes

• We are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Law, Justice, Honor

  Brown v. Allen (concurring opinion) (1953)

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• Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Men, Thinking, World

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• The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Men, Talking, Gentleman

  'Ask Mamma' (1858) ch. 1

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• Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Vaccines, Effort, Action

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gita: The Mother”, Lahore, India : Indian Printing Works

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• Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Party, Thinking, Hymns

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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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• Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Believe, Scary

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

  Edward Gibbon

  Liberty, Corruption, Symptoms

  'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' (1776-88) ch. 21

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• We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

  Blaise Pascal

  Doctors, Matter, Moral

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Men, Thinking, World

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

  Catharine Beecher

  Teacher, Race, Perfect

  Catharine Esther Beecher, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (1860). “An appeal to the people in behalf of their rights as authorized interpreters of the Bible”, p.235

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• Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Lying, Golf, Men

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.130, The Floating Press

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• Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?

  Henri Poincare

  Add, Needs, Mathematician

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.641, Modern Library

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• The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.

  Bill Vaughan

  Men, Talking, Gentleman

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• Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded.

  David Hume

  Thinking, Liberty, Fraud

  David Hume, Stephen Copley, Andrew Edgar (2008). “Selected Essays”, p.33, Oxford University Press

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• In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

  David Hume

  Enemy, Age, Liberty

  'Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary' (ed. T. H. Green and T. H. Grose, 1875) 'Of the Parties of Great Britain' (1741-2)

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• It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  1988 The Long Dark Tea- Time of the Soul, ch.1.

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• The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Oratory

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 8, 1678.

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• Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Men, Support

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• Don't take yourself too seriously. It just makes life all the harder. It'll all come out in the wash anyway, because God's glory eventually will eclipse everything that goes wrong on this earth. Lighten up and learn to laugh at yourself. None of us is infallible. We make mistakes in life, and more often than not, they're funny. Sometimes, being your own source of comedy is the most fun of all.

  Luci Swindoll

  Fun, Mistake, Self

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• There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Cures, Remedy

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• It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.

  Douglas Adams

  Tired, Airports, Expression

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• Who speaks for God? He does quite nicely for Himself. Through His holy and infallible Word - and the quiet obedience of His servants.

  Charles Colson

  Bible, Christian, Doe

  Charles Colson (1994). “Who Speaks for God?”, Tyndale House Pub

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• From all human oracles, however self-confident, we turn at last to the inspired Word, where instead of ambiguous and untrustworthy utterances, we find teachings distinct and definite, authoritative and infallible.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Bible, Christian, Teaching

  Arthur Tappan Pierson (1910). “Knowing the Scriptures: Rules and Methods of Bible Study”

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• even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is infallible, but one constitution that ought to be held sacred, and that is the human constitution.

  Ernestine Rose

  Needs, Sacred, Constitution

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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