Best Creeds Sayings
463 Creeds quotes by 335 unique authors
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Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition.…
— Millard Fillmore
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Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of…
— Laurence Sterne
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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
— Emily Bronte
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If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes…
— Helen Keller
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I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said he, 'were the…
— John Joseph Griffin
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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot…
— William Howard Taft
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A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I…
— Ken Doherty
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All religions are equal to me. And all castes and creeds are dear to me. But though I appreciate all `isms,' religions and political parties…
— Meher Baba
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While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social, cultural.…
— Davis McCaughey
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A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.
— John Wayne
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When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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We declare that no one is permitted to introduce, or to describe, or to compare, or to study, or otherwise to teach another faith. Whoever…
— Pope Agatho
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The proposition that the principal articles of the Apostles' Creed did not have the same meaning for the Christians of the earliest times as they…
— Pope Pius X
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We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a…
— Jane Addams
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We must make democracy the popular creed...If we should fail to do this, our people are bound to suffer... That is what my father said.…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.
— Mark Twain
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Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new generation, with his…
— Maureen Dowd
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We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
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