Infallible Quotes

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. (Edward Gibbon)
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. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final. View quote
Robert H. Jackson
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one. View quote
Robert Smith Surtees
Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible? View quote
Henri Poincaré
Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity. View quote
Saul Bellow
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. View quote
Walter Martin
Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself. View quote
Cesare Pavese
Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed. View quote
William Cobbett
The passions are the only advocates which always persuade. They are a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
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. View quote
John Buchan
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. View quote
Ihara Saikaku
Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors. View quote
David Hume
Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason. View quote
Daniel Defoe
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself. View quote
Henry Kissinger
As a man of the Congress, let me reaffirm my conviction that the collective wisdom of our two great legislative bodies, while not infallible, will in the end serve the people faithfully and very, very well. View quote
Gerald Ford
Akri infallible. Well, except for a couple of things, and we don't talk about those ‘cause it makes akri cranky. I like that word ‘infallible.' It just like me. Infallible. (Simi) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
On your way towards becoming a bad theoretician, take your own immature theory, stop checking it for mistakes, don't listen to colleagues who do spot weaknesses, and start admiring your own infallible intelligence. View quote
Gerardus 't Hooft
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true. View quote
Catharine Beecher
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience. (Mahatma Gandhi)
On the other hand, the constructive and often scholarly criticism is almost always helpful in thinking about or rethinking decisions. It is my view that constructive criticism goes with the turf, especially when the stakes are so high and the cases arouse passions and emotions. And, in a free society, the precious freedom of speech and the strength of ideas, we at the court could not possibly claim exemption from such criticism. Moreover, we are not infallible, just final. View quote
Clarence Thomas
Do I believe that my views or opinions are perfect or infallible? No, I do not. But in admitting that I have no claim to perfection or infallibility, I am also asserting that competing or differing views similarly have no such claim. And they should not be accorded a status of infallibility or any status that suggests otherwise. View quote
Clarence Thomas
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. View quote
Blaise Pascal
I believe that God's Word is infallible and flawless in every detail. If the Bible says that something was created a certain way, then that is just the way it happened. View quote
Kent Hovind