Quotes.wiki
  • Home
  • Tags
  • Authors
  • Contact Us
">
Quotes.wiki
Quotes.wiki
  • Home
  • Tags
  • Authors
  • Contact Us
Dogma  Quotes
The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish...

—Charles Darwin

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AuthorityCharles-DarwinDarwin
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
know” absolutely nothing—accessible to us and our ordinary, unmysterious lives. And more crucially: definite beliefs enable us to withstand the storms of suffering that come into every life, and that tend to destroy any spiritual...

—Christian Wiman

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BeliefDogmaRevelation
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
DoctrinesDogmaEnslavement
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

—Salman Rushdie

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
DogmaExtremismFanaticism
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake.

—Christopher Hitchens

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
DogmaPoliticsPower
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
This doctrine of forgiveness of sin is a premium on crime. ‘Forgive us our sins’ means “Let us continue in our iniquity.” It is one of the most pernicious of doctrines, and one of the...

—John Remsburg

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Biblical-CriticismCause-And-EffectConsequences
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger.

—Sol Luckman

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AuthorityBlindnessDogma
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Some people spend their entire lives devoted to a religion that claims to be the ‘right’ religion… they often deny scientific evidence that contradicts their archaic holy books, they sometimes oppress those who disagree with...

—David G. McAfee

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AtheismDogmaIndoctrination
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]

—Niels Bohr

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
CautionDogmaDogmatism
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

—William Osler

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
DogmaIgnorance
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

—Anaïs Nin

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Critical-ThinkingDogmaFreedom-Of-Thought
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Mystical experience needs some form of dogma in order not to dissipate into moments of spiritual intensity that are merely personal, and dogma needs regular infusions of unknowingness to keep from calcifying into the predictable,...

—Christian Wiman

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ChristChurchDogma
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.

—Rupertus Meldenius

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BeliefCatholicityChurch-Unity
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma....

—Robert Ingersoll

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AgnosticBigotryDogma
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
An Ego Mind is a destructive mind and a rational mind is a peaceful mind.

—Charleston Parker

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AuthorBibleBook
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The destiny of your soul is not predicated upon acceptance of a specific dogma that happens to be “correct.” A loving God does not dole out eternal condemnation because one has selected the wrong doctrine...

—Mark Ireland

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
DogmaGodReligion
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, “My current model” — or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel — “contains the whole universe and will never need to be...

—Robert Anton Wilson

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BeliefDogmaKnowledge
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine

—Gilbert Ryle

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Dogma
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Dogma is a defence against the brain’s capacity for free thought based on the fear that such thought might lead to a scary place.

—Joe Blow

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
DogmaFree-ThoughtPsychology
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or future punishment, or as a storehouse of anaesthetics for those who find the...

—Thomas Henry

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ArchitectureArtBelief
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
We are all tricked. We think that religion tells us what to believe; but it doesn’t, it is telling us what not to believe. Atheism is not the absence of religion; atheism is the most...

—C. JoyBell C.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AtheismDeceptionDogma
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas. It may be said even that the modern world, as a corporate body,...

—G.K. Chesterton

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BeliefDoctrineDogma
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds immense prestige in our society. Religion is the one area...

—Sam Harris

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AtheismBeliefDogma
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.

—Shannon L. Alder

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Be-KindBuilding-People-UpCommandments
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

—Edward Abbey

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Critical-ThinkingDogmaHeart
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Never hold a belief longer than you can hold your breath.

—Marty Rubin

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BeliefConsistencyDogma
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, “Is this true?” “Just because this has always been the way, is the best or right way of life, the best or...

—Saul D.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
CuriosityDogmaIrreverence
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Misstraue jedem Politiker, jedem Regierungs- oder Staatschef, der seine Religion zum Instrument macht. Halte Abstand von solchen Politikern, die ihre auf das Jenseits orientierte Religion und ihre diesseitige Politik miteinander vermischen.

—Helmut Schmidt

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
DogmaFundamentalismPolitics
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The chief trouble with religion has been too much dependence upon names or words. People fail to discriminate. They do not think. Generally people who think for themselves, instead of thinking according to the rules...

—Luther Burbank

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
DogmaOrderRespect
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by the decay and disruption of the Roman Empire, the consequent disorganisation of society,...

—Thomas Henry

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Ancient-GreeksDogmaGreek
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Some people live in cages with bars built from their own fears and doubts. Some people live in cages with bars built from other people’s fears and doubts; their parents, their friends, their brothers and...

—C. JoyBell C.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Attaining-VictoryBreaking-FreeDogma
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
We all know dogmatists who are more concerned about holding their opinions than about investigating their truth. … if they are mistaken, they will never discover it; they have condemned themselves to perpetual error. Human...

—David L. Wolfe

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BeliefDogmaSelf-Delusion
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist, that he does not revenge an injury; and it is equally as good...

—Thomas Paine

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
American-RevolutionCrimeDogma
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I have always found the hardest mind to change is one that is religious.

—Shannon L. Alder

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BeliefsDogmaReligion
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything is tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The...

—Hermann Hesse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
DogmaReligionTruth
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
You could harbor a man in your bed or your body, play on his nervous system like Paderewski at the keyboard, and not shift his brain one inch out of the concrete of dogma. (p....

—Jonathan Lethem

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BrainDogmaHarbor
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Everything you’ve learned in school as “obvious” becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a...

—R. Buckminster

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
DogmaUncertainty
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
One century’s saint is the next century’s heretic … and one century’s heretic is the next century’s saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.

—Ellis Peters

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
DoctrineDogmaHeresy
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

—Margaret Atwood

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
DogmaExtremismFanaticism
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I write nothing for publication, and last of all things should it be on the subject of religion. On the dogmas of religion as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the...

—Thomas Jefferson

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
DogmaReligionReligious-Violence
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to...

—Carl Sagan

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Argument-From-AuthorityComplexDogma
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Am God”. When a person allows someone else’s dogma to become their God, they have things backwards.

—Donald L.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
DogmaReligionReligious-Persecution
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and...

—W.E.B. Du

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AncientCreedCreeds
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
For Abelard, the death of Christ on the Cross did not, strictly speaking, redeem man: it only offered him an example of supreme humility, charity, and self-sacrifice. Bernard asserts, against Abelard, that Christ became man...

—Thomas Merton

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Bernard-Of-ClairvauxChristChristian
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for...

—Hermann Hesse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BeadDogmaGame
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
true.” If he cannot do this by himself, he is obliged to go to someone who can. This may be a priest or a rabbi, or it may be his superior in the party hierarchy,...

—Mortimer J.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
CanonicalDogmaFaithful
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Then, what is sacrelige [sic]? If it is nothing more than a rebellion against dogma, it is eventually as meaningless as the dogma it defies, and they are both become hounds ranting in the high...

—William Gaddis

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BlasphemyDogmaEnlightenment
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep...

—Jawaharlal Nehru

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AtheismBigotryBlind-Belief
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no...

—Nikola Tesla

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AfterlifeAstronomyBehaviorism
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
When the great ship containing the hopes and aspirations of the world, when the great ship freighted with mankind goes down in the night of death, chaos and disaster, I am willing to go down...

—Robert G.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AspirationBeliefChaos
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
  • Page 1 of 3
  • Next
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy
  • About us

Copyright © 2017 - 2020 TR Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

Exercise your consumer rights by contacting us below Privacy Policy

[email protected]

Personalized advertisements

Turning this off will opt you out of personalized advertisements delivered from Google on this website.

CookiePro
Confirm
Popup Button popup close button