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463 Creeds quotes by 335 unique authors
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People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have a…
— Louis Leakey
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A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they…
— Sally Kirkland
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I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. I feel that…
— Leslie Weatherhead
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We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as…
— Abraham Flexner
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The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise…
— Alice Paul
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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
— Phillips Brooks
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Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color…
— Sydney J. Harris
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Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it…
— Radhanath Swami
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Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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One canon reduced to writing by God himself, two testaments, three creeds, four general councils, five centuries, and the series of Fathers in that period…
— Lancelot Andrewes
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This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one…
— William James
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
— Berthold Auerbach
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A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young…
— Arthur Helps
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The Unitarian Church has done more than any other church to substitute character for creed, and to say that a man should be judged by…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul…
— Saint Augustine
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn;…
— Oscar Wilde
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In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first place to economic fundamentalism, with…
— Carlos Fuentes
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I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression…
— Louis Comfort Tiffany
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We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age or even time...…
— Unknown Author
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The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.
— Reginald Horace Blyth
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Here is the Truth in a little creed, Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all the law we need, In Christ…
— Edwin Markham
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So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.
— Thomas Jefferson
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