George Crabbe Quotes

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.

Our Lord Christ has surnamed Himself Truth, not Custom.

People tend not to want to question dogma. But I'm afraid of dogma.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Habit had made the custom.

A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?

Custom is almost a second nature.

Custom does often reason overrule.

Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.

Custom doth make dotards of us all.

Sometimes we do things a certain way just because that is the way we do things.

Sometimes I apologize. It started that way and we never did change it.

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

Be more concerned about what's right rather than who's right.

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why investigate when you know? Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bullying the enlightened Present. The ignorant are not satisfied with what can be demonstrated. Science is too slow for them, and so they invent creeds. They demand completeness. A sublime segment, a grand fragment, are of no value to them. They demand the complete circle... the entire structure.

Honesty is most important, and it's difficult when you're young and single and sort of figuring out your own life.