Quotes of: Heresy Keyword

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Henry David Thoreau

The only interesting ideas are heresies

Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.

Thomas Huxley

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

George Santayana

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but ...

1984

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

Learned Hand

If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

Randall Terry

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Thomas Huxley

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Alexander Hamilton

But did he know that I'd already forgiven him for having rejected me?

My Heresy

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'

Stephen Hawking

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

Ignatius of Loyola

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

Naguib Mahfouz

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

John C. Polanyi

[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.

John R.W. Stott

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

James Joyce

His allure, as he stood there, his face, even with the red swollen eyes, everything about him was gorgeous.

My Heresy

People said— though this felt like a heresy— that they had seen Camille make Robespierre laugh.

A Place of Greater Safety

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

Swami Vivekananda

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are of...

Conrad Black