(34 quotes found)
“England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors”
George Santayana
“A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.”
Eric Hoffer
“This may be heresy to admit, but it's the record.”
Bob Graham
“For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.”
Bible
“The administration has said some things in this that six months ago would have been heresy.”
Robert Einhorn
“priests roved around the ruins, selecting at random those they believed guilty of heresy and thus to blame for annoying the Divine, who in turn had ordered up the disaster. The priests had them hanged on the spot.”
Simon Winchester
“After Galileo was convicted (for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition) for his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, ... he replied, `Still, the Earth is moving.'”
Junichiro Koizumi
“Even after Galileo was found guilty of heresy, he still said, 'The Earth moves,”
“Saying that positive thinking usually doesn’t work is such heresy that I may be unceremoniously drummed out of the personal development field. And, it is mostly true.”
Robert White
“There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it”
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
