Heresy Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.
Graham Greene (b. 1904) British novelist
A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American philosopher
A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
John Milton (1608-1674) English poet
Even heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author
The appellation of heretics has always been applied to the less numerous party.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) English historian
His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him.
Bible, Genesis
That is the whole problem with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.
Aubrey Menen (b. 1912) British novelist, essayist
What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher
For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist
You pronounce sentence upon me with greater fear than I receive it.
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) Italian philosopher to the inquisitors who had condemned him to death
