if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.
A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.
For a pediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest denying the infallibility of the pope.
I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.
It is courage the world needs, not infallibility. . . courage is always the surest wisdom.
Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change
The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And this shift from infallibilism to fallibilism has profound consequences not only for toleration, but also for the subordination of faith to reason and theology to philosophy.
The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.
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?
Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.
Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?" The answer will tell us if the person is intellectually honest or a tale spinner with delusions of infallibility.
Infallibility and invincible ignorance are the same thing.
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.
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.
The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.
I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility.
All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith
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.
Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.
