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• It was foreordained that I should go alone to Umvelos', and in the promptings of my own infallible heart I believed I saw the workings of Omnipotence. Such is our moral arrogance, and yet without such a belief I think that mankind would have ever been content to bide sluggishly at home.

  John Buchan

  Home, Heart, Thinking

  "Prester John". Book by John Buchan, 1910.

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• The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Jobs, Men, Erring

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• Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Pet, Sitting

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• Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue, to suspend a conclusion; but as we are not infallible, so we ought to be cautious; we shall eventually find our advantage, for the man who rests in his position is not so far from right as he who, proceeding in a wrong direction, is ever increasing his distance.

  Michael Faraday

  Distance, Science, Exercise

  Michael Faraday (1859). “Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics”, p.483

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• The Bible becomes a dead idol when we call the words between its covers inerrant, infallible, to be taken literally. This is not a dead book. It is alive. Open it carefully because the new truth that might come leaping out at you could change your life forever.

  Mel White

  Book, Taken, Idols

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• For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Education, Kings, Weak

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• ...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, May, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.129, Hackett Publishing

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• Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) choices are not known, Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Data, Choices

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.320, Penguin

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• The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Logic, Sometimes, Scientist

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• Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call "the art of medicine".

  Hippocrates

  Art, Medicine, Fruit

  "Precepts". Book by Hippocrates, Ch. 2, as translated by W. H. S. Jones (1923),

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• That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.

  Blaise Pascal

  Queens, Real, Character

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.95

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• The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.

  William James

  Reflection, Pope, Instinct

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.12, 谷月社

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• Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience-that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible-that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Errors, Giving

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.999, Penguin

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• What I'm most deeply grateful for is that God's love for us, approval of us, and commitment to us does not ride on our resolve but on Jesus' resolve for us. The gospel is the good news announcing Jesus' infallible devotion to us despite our inconsistent devotion to Him. The gospel is not a command to hang on to Jesus; it's a promise that no matter how weak and unsuccessful our faith and efforts may be, God is always holding on to us.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Grateful, Commitment

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• They amuse themselves by playing an irrelevant ecclesiastical game called "Let's Pretend." Let's pretend that we possess the objective truth of God in our inerrant Scriptures or in our infallible pronouncements or in our unbroken apostolic traditions.

  John Shelby Spong

  Games, Atheism, Scripture

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

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• My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Tyrants, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.99, Hackett Publishing

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• The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.

  Frederick Franck

  Delusional, Constructs, Core

  "Echoes from the Bottomless Well". Book by Frederick Franck, p. 74, 1985.

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• For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.

  Ihara Saikaku

  Physicians, Four, Poverty

  "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book III, ch. 1), 1688.

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• Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Beautiful, Style, Mind

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• Reversal by a higher court is not proof that justice is thereby better done. There is no doubt that if there were a super-Supreme Court, a substantial proportion of our reversals of state courts would also be reversed. We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Justice, Doubt, Finals

  Brown v. Allen (concurring opinion) (1953)

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• What you have to watch out for are the theories that claim to be infallible. Because the only way their believers can win is to stomp out everyone who disagrees with them.

  Robert X. Cringely

  Winning, Way, Watches

  "When Worlds (and Particles) Collide". www.infoworld.com. September 12, 2008.

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• Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.

  Plutarch

  Men, Mirrors

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• All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is ascertained to be actually & verily science. The Ptolemaic Astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came Science and Prophecy.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Science, Kepler, Tests

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, H. J. Jackson, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer (1992). “Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Marginalia (5 v.)”, Bollingen

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• I feel like I have more experience with publishing humor than pretty much any editor I'm going to be dealing with so sometimes I'll get a little bit nuts if I write something I know is good a certain way, and some editor because of some restriction he has and wants to change it that I know is going to make it less funny that'll piss me off and then I'm inclined to go, "Well, hey I've been doing this a long time, maybe you should..." That doesn't happen that often, but I'm more likely to say that now than I would have been a long time ago. Because dammit, I'm infallible!

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Nuts, Editors

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• Everybody in the media thinks the New York Times is the bible. So whatever is in it is safe to run and is gospel, and is unchallengeable. It's infallible.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, New York, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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