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  • To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

    John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.163, Hackett Publishing
  • Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

    John Burroughs (1900). “Writings: The light of day”
  • Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

  • 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.

    Stress   Math   Perfect  
    Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”
  • 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.

    Mistake   People   Drones  
  • 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.

    Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International
  • A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.

    Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.92, New York Review of Books
  • The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of Germany and England moved leisurely in the lines of religious evolution, the mind of France leaped from the hot faith which had massacred the Huguenots to the cold hostility with which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, and Diderot turned upon the religion of the fathers.

    "Story of Philosophy".
  • Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.

    Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.163, Princeton University Press
  • The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

    Wise   Wisdom   Weakness  
    Thomas Jefferson (1941). “The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Jefferson Bible, "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth,"”
  • I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.

  • The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

    Mistake   Past   Secret  
    George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.164, Arcturus Publishing
  • A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional objectivity. It would be more nearly true to say that it is based upon wonder, adventure and hope.

    "Chemistry in Britain". Quoted in E.J. Bowen's obituary of Hinshelwood, "Chemistry in Britain", Vol. 3, 536, 1967.
  • 'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

  • 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.

    Roots   Teeth   Half  
    Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.70, Barnes & Noble Publishing
  • 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.

    Wise   Integrity   Men  
  • 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. (Ch.1)

  • 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?

    Two   Atheism   Proof  
    Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.178, Penguin
  • One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.

  • Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not question itself, only hope questions itself. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often. Like when a bumblebee flies or an ancient regime is toppled.

    Men   Law   Evil  
    Craig Ferguson (2007). “Between the Bridge and the River”, p.208, Chronicle Books
  • 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.

    Mean   Errors   Giving  
    Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.999, Penguin
  • 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.

  • A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin, indulgences, the infallibility of the pope, or obedience to any church official if it is against my conscience. I am not interested in earning "merit" or in being saved by priestly incantation.

    Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.475, Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

    Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.101, Routledge
  • For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

    Change   Thinking   Long  
    On the Constitution (1787)
  • Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its non-mystical methods; above all-which perhaps most explains the expert's sovereignty-of external verities; of traffic-cop morality and rabbit-test truth.

    Faith   Science   Age  
  • 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.

    Effort   Catholic   Storm  
  • It is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It is the undertaking to decide that question for others, without allowing them to hear what can be said on the contrary side. And I denounce and reprobate this pretension not the less, if put forth on the side of my most solemn convictions.

    Feelings   Doctrine   May  
    Source: www.usconstitution.net
  • Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's people's faith.

    Dan Brown (2006). “Angels & Demons Special Illustrated Edition: A Novel”, p.155, Simon and Schuster
  • The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys the attractions of an interior voice but will not listen to other men. He identifies the will of God with anything that makes him feel, within his own heart, a big, warm, sweet interior glow. The sweeter and the warmer the feeling is, the more he is convinced of his own infallibility.

    Sweet   Heart   Men  
    Thomas Merton (1962). “Seeds of contemplation”
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