Best Piety Words
187 Piety quotes by 146 unique authors
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
— Martin Heidegger
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Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.
— Elbert Hubbard
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I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless…
— Ellen Glasgow
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In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women. It shuns race,…
— Benazir Bhutto
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If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.
— Clement of Alexandria
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Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the worth.
— Immanuel Hermann Fichte
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Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
— Hermann Hesse
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Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
— E. M. Forster
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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
— George Santayana
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Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.
— William Blake
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He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind…
— George Orwell
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Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
— George Santayana
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Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.
— Richard Hofstadter
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...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his…
— Samuel Johnson
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Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the…
— Leslie Fiedler
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Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.
— Saint Basil
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Popular piety is one of our strengths because it consists of prayers deeply rooted in people's hearts. These prayers even move the hearts of people…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order…
— Robert Farrar Capon
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Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least offended with those…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
— Seneca the Younger
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
— Baruch Spinoza
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