Profess Quotes

166 quotes by 136 authors

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. — John Quincy Adams
As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given… — Saint Basil
I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music.… — David Bowie
But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political… — Eric Alterman
We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine. Science is knowledge reduced to… — Samuel Wilks
The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of… — David Brainerd
I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer in their families. We may… — Charles Spurgeon
You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe. — Dallas Willard
The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not… — Samuel Johnson
We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the… — Thomas Jefferson
Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army, which… — George Washington
We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our… — John Owen
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared… — Thomas Paine
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or… — Thomas Paine
When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president, we solemnly profess… — Tertullian
How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of… — Joseph Wood Krutch
We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person 'to profess a belief or disbelief in… — Hugo Black
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set… — Jane Austen
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of… — William Harvey
Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we… — C. D. Broad

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