Quotes about creeds

Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled.

— Matthew Arnold

Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

— Emily Bronte

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

— Havelock Ellis

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

— Edward M. Forster

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

— Christopher Hampton

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected I believe to One does feel.

— Ronald Knox

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics --a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage --surely that proves that you are in the right?

— George Orwell

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

— Thomas Paine

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

— George Bernard Shaw