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Quotes About Infallible

in other words then, if a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
~ George Dyson
A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.
~ Irving Stone
Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution ... is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.
~ Christopher Morley
When you're the foreigner and your kids are the natives, they realize you're clueless much sooner than they ordinarily would. I'm pretty sure mine skipped the Mommy-is-infallible stage entirely.
~ Pamela Druckerman
Hearing the anecdote, it's easy to assume that Target's algorithms are infallible—that everybody receiving coupons for onesies and wet wipes is pregnant. But nobody ever claimed that it was true.
~ Tim Harford
It's turning. If fate is a millstone… …we are the ones that make it turn. We believe that the crushing wheel… …is guided by an infallible power.
~ Tite Kubo
Joy is the most infallible sign of the Presence of God.
~ Teilhard de Chardin
He is lifeless that is faultless.
~ English proverb
In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed.
~ C. S. Lewis
The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.
~ John Piper
In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.
~ Jonah Goldberg
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.
~ Edmund Burke
But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and it offers as many paths of the true intelligible species and objects of infallible and sole truth as there are individual pedants.
~ Giordano Bruno
However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.
~ Walter Martin
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success.
~ Kurt Herbert Alder
Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.
~ la rochefoucauld iii
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
~ Bill Vaughan
Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.
~ Thomas Aquinas
If our opponent believes nothing of divine revelation, there is no longer any means of proving the articles of faith by reasoning, but only of answering his objections--if he has any--against faith. Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.
~ NIETZSCHE FREDERICH
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
~ Gore Vidal
I know. In fact, I am never wrong.
~ Oscar Wilde
My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? I have studied it…I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things. —GEORG CANTOR
~ Charles Seife