Confucius
Philosopher
"A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless."
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Reliability
33 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Richard P. Feynman
Physicist
"Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion"
Frank Herbert
Science Fiction Writer
"Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author, Statistician
"Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler."
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"Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster."
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"Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close."
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"To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against."
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