Professed Quotes

57 quotes by 50 authors

I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me… — Hari Kunzru
If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord's will, but does not mean to attend to it, you are not… — Charles Spurgeon
The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and feminist movements ignore… — Caroline Glick
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? — Wystan Hugh Auden
As life draws nearer to its end, I feel more and more clearly that it will not matter in the least, at the last day,… — Lewis Carroll
A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew. — John Milton
Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate. — Paul Weyrich
Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate. — Paul Weyrich
To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock. — Vance Havner
Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values. — Taylor Branch
It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline… — Antonio Gramsci
Someone has described the modern American as a person who drives a bank financed car over a bond financed highway on credit card gas to… — Paul Billheimer
When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and… — John Dewey
If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other,… — John Milton
I do not believe in the creed professed by any church that I know of. Each of these churches accuse the other of unbelief; and… — Thomas Paine
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble. — Mavis Gallant
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been… — Joseph Conrad
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new… — Thomas Huxley

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