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I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

— Martin Luther

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✓Similar Perspectives

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

— Charles Spurgeon

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.

— Sun Myung Moon

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

— Petrarch

No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.

— Karl G. Maeser

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

— Charles Edison

The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.

— Orison Swett Marden

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

✗Opposing Perspectives

What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?

— Renee Vivien

What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.

— Robert M. Pirsig