Character Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Heretic Honesty Thinking
“I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.” — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they would not venture to own their heresy; and they cannot afford to be deficient in any of the other virtues, as they would give advantage to their many enemies; and they have not, like orthodox sinners, such a number of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us:… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He turned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“His life, or at least the latter part of it, was of epic significance. Yet he was far from perfect. He could tell lies… — David Pawson Copy Share Image
“That of His great goodness He would make known to you, and take from your heart, every kind and form and degree of Pride,… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
“Therefore I permit every man to hold either of these opinions, as he chooses. My one concern at present is to remove all scruples… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Yet man is sometimes a very strange being. By all the Saints, he will talk of doing things, yet leave them undone, and remain… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner of our… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“He burned to appease the fierce longing of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and distort reality with the power of his personality.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavour, a better and happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it; as those who aim at perfect writing by imitating the engraved copies, their hand… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced to face issues and emotions, feelings, that they have. So it kind of forces them to face it head on, which I think is a really interesting dynamic. And I think it should be interesting and… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
