Top 184 Unreliable Quotes & Sayings

Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

First impressions are always unreliable.

I know I love a novel with an unreliable narrator, and I think many readers do as well.

Our feelings about how we're feeling are notoriously unreliable.

I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know themselves to be revealing. We all do that.

Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.

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

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

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

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

The idea that affable Boris[Johnson] is actually divisive, selfish and unreliable is Mr 's biggest weakness.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

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

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

Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.

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.

My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.

I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I like.

Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.

I call it dark energy. If you are unreliable, customers just disappear.

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

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.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

The underlying problem with solar and wind is that they are too unreliable and energy-dilute.

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.

If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.

I write unreliable narrators because - paradoxically - they're the most honest, true-to-life kind there is.

Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.

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

The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt to.

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.

Unfortunately, my army consists of one unreliable criminal, one girl with a disability, and one incredibly foolish young vampire with a tanning issue. I am not confident.

The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective.

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

We are unreliable narrators - all of us.

Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.

Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.

Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.

The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.

In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.

There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.

If the banks become unreliable lenders, apartment prices will drop dramatically.

All memories fashioned at the level of a child's eye were unreliable in scale.

In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors.

I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word on the street is unreliable. It's no more unreliable than that. You can find the truth on the street if you work at it. I don't think of the Internet or the virtual as being inherently inferior to the so-called real.

There is so much unreliable information on the internet and in the media.

I have often said I come from a family of unreliable narrators. I tend to believe their struggles with racism, identity, nationality do dovetail with my motivation to write.

I would love to play a sociopath or, like, an unreliable narrator.

There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.