Profess Quotes
166 quotes by 136 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
— Dallas Willard
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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