Best 212 quotes in «dogma quotes» category

Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.

Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.

Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.

Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

. . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . .

Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma.

Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from his fellow-Protestants more bitter than anything he had ever experienced from Catholics.

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

Every dogma has its day.

Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

Eloquent and moving... an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of love - beyond faith and dogma. It reminds us of why we are here: to love and live fully, to be curious about all things, and to live a compassionate - and passionate - authentic life.

Fundamentalists can't take a joke. Ever. They want us to blindly obey, parrot everything they do, and believe in their dogmas.

He said that faith is like a glass of water. When you're young, the glass is small, and it's easy to fill up. But the older you get, the bigger the glass gets, and the same amount of liquid doesn't fill it anymore. Periodically, the glass has to be refilled.

God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.

I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.

However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.

I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.

I am not so interested in religion or dogma of any kind. It is too restrictive for me, too organizational, too hierarchical, and too tied up in power and being right. You call it a "rabid evangelism.

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.

I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.

I'm totally changed. I've been emancipated from all this Republican dogma. Whether it's being anti-immigration, being-anti gay, being militaristic and wanting to engage in all these military interventions across the planet. That's all absurd.

In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.

In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding "truth": dogma, authority, and revelation. Science does find truth, faith does not.

It doesnt matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith.

I think that the fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in "hard" science, could become a dogma, can be explained only on sociological grounds.

fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.

I find it interesting how we get carried away by the dogma a-la-mode.

If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still reject that as false dogma because I know with every ounce of my being that this is not true.

I have not the most definite designs on the future.

I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well.

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can be pro-woman while supporting anti-woman dogmas.

Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

My rap comes from a sociological standpoint rather than picking a particular side or dogma or ideology. I just want people to be free to do what they want, as long as they don't harm others.

My karma just ran over my dogma.

Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.

Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade — a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no predictions, never exposes itself to test, and therefore stands as dogma rather than disprovable science. This claim is nonsense.

Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.

Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness.