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  • We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.

    Writing   White   History  
  • My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.

    Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.142, Hamilton Books
  • The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.

  • Parents must begin to discover their children as individuals of developing tastes and views and so help them be, and see, themselves as thinking, feeling people. It is far too easy for a middle-years child to absorb an over-simplified picture of himself as a sloppy, unreliable, careless, irresponsible, lazy creature and not much more--an attitude toward himself he will carry far beyond these years.

  • If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity.

    "Evidence That Demands a Verdict". Book by Josh McDowell, February 1979.
  • Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine.

    Bully   Soul   Machines  
  • After trying several unreliable web site hosts, I signed up with NitroTek and was pleased to discover there is a reliable, easy to work with service available to individuals and companies who want to keep a solid presence on the net. NitroTtek is a helpful, no-hassles company to work with.

    Trying   Want   Helpful  
  • To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.

    Self   Design   Pay  
  • In fact global warming has stopped and a cooling is beginning. No climate model has predicted a cooling of the Earth – quite the contrary. And this means that the projections of future climate are unreliable.

    Mean   Climate   Earth  
  • What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

  • He finished the bandage and was examining it critically. "You know those things are unreliable." His voice held just a touch of reproach. “Eleven out of twelve work fine. I’d say that’s better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.

    Voice   Trying   Twelve  
    Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.80, Penguin
  • Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

  • If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war is a flimsy structure that can easily collapse and bury us in its ruins. ... Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. This is true of all intelligence but even more so in the heat of battle, where such reports tend to contradict and cancel each other out. In short, most intelligence is false, and the effect of fear is to multiply lies and inaccuracies.

    War   Lying   Battle  
  • Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.

    Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.221, Granta Books
  • An impractical man--which he not only seems to be, but really is--will always be unreliable and unpredictable in his dealings with others. He will engage in actions that mean something else to him than to others, but he is at peace with himself about everything as long as he can make it all come together in a fine idea.

    Mean   Men   Ideas  
    Robert Musil (2017). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.12, Pan Macmillan
  • Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us." If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.

    Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.80, Bantam
  • When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.

    Memories   Night   Ideas  
  • With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.

    Robert Walser (2014). “Jakob von Gunten”, p.140, New York Review of Books
  • In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.

    Selfish   Lazy   Matter  
    John Derbyshire (2009). “We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism”, p.175, Crown Forum
  • Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable, and others to be quite unreliable.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all.

    Nido R. Qubein (1997). “Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement”, Wiley
  • Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

    Spiritual   Men   Effort  
  • Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality?

    Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.64, Harvard University Press
  • I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a child’s ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal energy. He enjoyed food and drink. He liked to try new things. He brought home coconuts, papayas, mangoes, and urged them on our reluctant conservative selves. On Sundays he liked to discover new places, take us on endless bus or trolley rides to some new park or beach he knew about. He always counseled daring, in whatever situation, the courage to test the unknown, an instruction that was thematically in opposition to my mother’s.

    Mother   Beach   Children  
    E.L. Doctorow (2010). “World's Fair: A Novel”, p.15, Random House
  • Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

    Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.202, Vintage
  • So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.

    Plato   Thinking   Views  
    Gilbert Ryle (2015). “Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures 1953”, p.12, Cambridge University Press
  • Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.

  • You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

    Artist   Wish   Bombs  
    H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.8287, Delphi Classics
  • Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.

    Life   Trust   Nature  
  • The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable. To my mind, the plausibility of internalist views about justification is dramatically decreased when one becomes vividly aware of what introspection and reflection actually achieve.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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