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knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith


Yevgeny Zamyatin

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YEVGENY ZAMYATIN Explosions are not comfortable.
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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YEVGENY ZAMYATIN The same joy is in a stone which, thrown aloft, hesitates a little at the height of its flight and t...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN In order to establish the true value of a function, one must take it to its limits. And it's clear t...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. I...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN With his head thrust forward like a ram, Baryba pushed his way through to the front. For some reason...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN Darkness. The door into the neighboring room is not quite shut. A strip of light stretches through t...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.
("Literature, Revol...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed - to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hun...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you ...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN I'm like a machine being run over its RPM limit. The bearings are overheating: a minute longer and t...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN The wind blew through the window. The trousers swayed. Doubtless when they were on Mr. Craggs, the t...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most importa...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN Our gods are here, below, with us---in the office, the kitchen, the workshop, the toilet; the gods h...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, ske...
THOMAS HUXLEY Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.
ALLEN TATE The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibilit...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Vincent Marc Hoherz on infallibility.

The only way to infallibility is to confess to one'...
VINCENT MARC HOHERZ People too often tolerate uncertainty prior to taking action; worse, some people believe that omnisc...
MIKE KLEPPER Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.
NICOLáS GóMEZ DáVILA The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God
CHARLES HODGE The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.
CHARLES HODGE No one knows absolutely; knowledge is relative, except 'Truth'.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
NOVALIS Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
KHALIL GIBRAN Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Only the madman is absolutely sure.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Only the madman is absolutely sure
ROBERT ANTON WILSON There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, its endurance. Love wil...
BIBLE I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE The transformation of faith into knowledge creates incredible opportunities.
ILKIN SANTAK The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.
ROBERT ELDRIDGE WILLMOTT Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
STANISLAW LEM Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
STANISłAW LEM Faith in the biblical sense is substantive, based on the knowledge that the One in whom that faith i...
RAVI ZACHARIAS There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit f...
DANIEL BERNOULLI Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFER I have absolutely no knowledge of what Mr. Shah was talking about,
PETER MCGOWAN My feelings are he [Yevgeny Kafelnikov] should take his prize money when he is done here and go and ...
ANDRE AGASSI My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.
JOHN COLTRANE Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to k...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to k...
KHALIL GIBRAN It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
ADOLF HITLER I'm sure Burton is absolutely thrilled. Everyone is seeing their stuff.
JOHN HORAN Business Embezzlement -- Are You Absolutely Sure Your Business is Safe?
JAY MYERS Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity mea...
JOSS WHEDON It was absolutely decisive that the knowledge and experience of these watchmakers wasn't lost.
FRANK MUELLER If a man's faith is unstable and his peace of mind troubled, his knowledge will not be perfect..
DHAMMAPADA Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things withou...
AMBROSE BIERCE The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. T...
DAN BROWN He makes sure our faith in God is still there.
DEE BROWN To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it...
ALBERT CAMUS You can't know, you can only believe - or not.
C.S. LEWIS ... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, f...
MORTIMER J. ADLER Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.
WILLIAM BLAKE Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things ...
AMBROSE BIERCE Knowledge is power.
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge is not vast collection of academic degrees but right empowerment of open mind with an enli...
ANUJ SOMANY The battle of Life is equipped with its armor of Faith and courage.
KURT E. FLOWERS SR. In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste...
J. W. FULBRIGHT In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste,...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies fait...
STEPHEN AMBROSE Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.
UNKNOWN Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen...
ERWIN KNOLL This is the paradox of historical knowledge. Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. Bu...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
FRANCIS PICABIA Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
BIBLE A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its...
T. S. ELIOT Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of thi...
AMBROSE BIERCE Availability of knowledge is only next to prevalence of stupidity in its overwhelming abundance.
PAWAN MISHRA Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.
PAUL BRUNTON If they are not paid, they will not play the quarter-final. That's absolutely sure, absolutely certa...
CLAUDE LEROY There is no guarantee of disaster-free in any religion, but the knowledge of love and faith has give...
TOBA BETA Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sens...
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sens...
E. B. WHITE Faith is knowing in your heart that something is going to happen when there is absolutely no proof t...
JOHN DI LEMME Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour quickly lo...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibil...
PETER DRUCKER Wisdom is a great prophet, faith is a great warrior, knowledge is a great sage, and virtue is a grea...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO It is absolutely foolish to neglect the knowledge of money and at the same time desire to have money...
SUNDAY ADELAJA The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an er...
HANNAH ARENDT It takes faith to make a non existing business to become absolutely essential & valuable.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place
JOSEPH GOEBBELS

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