“All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament.”

— Joseph Henry Shorthouse , book John Inglesant

John Inglesant (1881)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament." by Joseph Henry Shorthouse?

Joseph Henry Shorthouse 3

British writer 1834–1903

Related quotes

“I assure you no art was ever less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters; of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament — temperament is the word — I know nothing.”

Edgar Degas (1834–1917) French artist

Quote of Degas in conversation with George Moore, later quoted by Moore in Impressions and Opinions (1891)
1876 - 1895

“It is the tendency of all creeds, opinions, and political dogmas that have once defined themselves in institutions to become inoperative.”

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat

The Election in November 1860 (1860)

“In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind”

Michael Foot (1913–2010) British politician

Morning Star, 1980
1980s

“Getting out was a bit like making your way through a jungle: if you know the way and all the hazards that lie before you the chances of getting through are good; if you know nothing the tendency is to take chances based on intuition, with unknown results.”

Tim Jenkin (1948) Prison escapee and author

Escape from Pretoria https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files/escape_from_pretoria.pdf, p. 35.

“Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

Source: My Several Worlds (1954), p. 244
Context: Chinese were born, it seemed to me, with an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naiveté, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them. To talk even with a farmer and his family, none of whom could read or write, was often to hear a philosophy at once sane and humorous. If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.

“There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca.”

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988) Indian independence activist

Badshah Khan by Eknath Easwaran (Penguin Books).

“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the tablets of eternity.”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian

James Anthony Froude, in the lecture "The Science of History" (5 February 1864); published in Representative Essays (1885) by George Haven Putnam, p. 274; Lord Acton quoted Froude in an address "The Study of History" (11 June 1895) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1906acton.html, which led to this being widely attributed to him. The phrase has also sometimes been misquoted as: Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Misattributed

“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.”

James Anthony Froude (1818–1894) English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine

"The Science of History", (5 February 1864); lecture published in Representative Essays (1885) by George Haven Putnam, p. 274; Lord Acton quoted the first sentence of this statement in an address "The Study Of History" (11 June 1895) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1906acton.html, and it has often since been misattributed to him. The phrase has also sometimes been misquoted as: Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Context: Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last.

“To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.”

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian

Diary (10 November 1724).

“A symphonic conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that, regardless of his approach or temperament, the eventual result is the same — the orchestra will hate him.”

Oscar Levant (1906–1972) American comedian, composer, pianist and actor

Source: In "Music in Aspic," Harper's Magazine (October 1939), an abbreviated chapter from Levant's soon-to-be-published A Smattering of Ignorance (1940); reproduced in Gentlemen, Scholars, and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22Oscar+Levant%22+intitle:Gentlemen+intitle:scholars+intitle:and+intitle:scoundrels&num=10 (1959), edited by Harry Knowles, p. 246

“All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Joseph Henry Shorthouse 3

Related quotes

Related topics