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" Adult infallibility, which seems to me to be an oxymoron, is a regrettable condition, a type of regression, a hardening of the arteries around the heart of ignorance. It frequently manifests itself in an irrational irascibility that is directed at an unspecified “they,” who upon examination turn out to be politicians, professionals, or scientists who have challenged our comfortable assumptions about the world. "

Kathleen Norris , Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith


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Kathleen Norris quote : Adult infallibility, which seems to me to be an oxymoron, is a regrettable condition, a type of regression, a hardening of the arteries around the heart of ignorance. It frequently manifests itself in an irrational irascibility that is directed at an unspecified “they,” who upon examination turn out to be politicians, professionals, or scientists who have challenged our comfortable assumptions about the world.