Quotes about Dogma

The Bible is literature, not dogma. Votes: 4

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion. Votes: 4

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. Votes: 4

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth. Votes: 4

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class. Votes: 4

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. Votes: 4

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. Votes: 4

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views. Votes: 4

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. Votes: 4

The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity. Votes: 4

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Votes: 4

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin. Votes: 3

Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God. Votes: 3

Don't let the Dogma of men to interfere with your Destiny Votes: 3

Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others. Votes: 3

Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition. Votes: 3

Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom. Votes: 3

Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition. Votes: 3

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought. Votes: 3

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom. Votes: 3

Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware. Votes: 3

Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake. Votes: 3

Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith. Votes: 3

No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought. Votes: 3

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms. Votes: 3

Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. Votes: 3

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. Votes: 3

Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes. Votes: 3

After doing the first couple scenes and I got used to being in front of a few people it got easier and easier. In Chasing Amy, I wasn't nervous at all. And in Dogma, the same. Votes: 3

Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favor of systematic hatred. Votes: 3

It is quaint that people talk about separating dogma from education. Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. Votes: 3

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 experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable. Votes: 3

Apparently Pope John Paul II and his boys - is that what you call them? - loved one of my songs and thought I was putting spiritual messages in my music. I'm not religious as such. Dogma and I don't get along. Votes: 3

Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.' Votes: 3

Every dogma has its day. Votes: 2

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. Votes: 2

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. Votes: 2

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma. Votes: 2

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma. Votes: 2

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness. Votes: 2

There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum. Votes: 2

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. Votes: 2

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ. Votes: 2

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience. Votes: 2

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end. Votes: 2

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind. Votes: 2

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma. Votes: 2

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn. Votes: 2

It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous? Votes: 2

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality. Votes: 2

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question. Votes: 2

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma. Votes: 2

When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense. Votes: 2

The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science. Votes: 2

A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma. Votes: 2

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Votes: 2

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual. Votes: 2

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. Votes: 2

And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle. Votes: 2

The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma and none of us seemed more religious than anyone else, no one ever questioned the rituals or the basic tenets of belief. Votes: 2

It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies. Votes: 2

Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science. Votes: 2

Philosophical dogma doesn't interest me. Votes: 1

What was heresy yesterday is dogma today Votes: 1

Alles wat geen natuurwet is, is dogma. Votes: 1

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. Votes: 1

The death of dogma is the birth of morality. Votes: 1

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. Votes: 1

The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma. Votes: 1

In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity. Votes: 1

Religious dogma creates a perfect fertilizer for the weeds of hypocrisy. Votes: 1

All religions are good except when they try to resist nature. Votes: 1

Science is a way humans try to tell themselves the truths. Votes: 1

Never hold a belief longer than you can hold your breath. Votes: 1

The pope is the keeper of the catholic dogma,not the Word. Votes: 1

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner. Votes: 1

I don't like dogmas; i don't want to be kept in a box Votes: 1

In the search for truth,what you believe matters lessthan how you believe. Votes: 1

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself. Votes: 1

I have always found the hardest mind to change is one that is religious. Votes: 1

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart. Votes: 1

You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle. Votes: 1

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. Votes: 1

An Ego Mind is a destructive mind and a rational mind is a peaceful mind. Votes: 1

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. Votes: 1

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. Votes: 1

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction. Votes: 1

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse."(History Will Teach Us Nothing) Votes: 1

In the world of dogma, you become free the day you decide to go to hell. Votes: 1

Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel. Votes: 1

These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve. Votes: 1

Fear mankind most when he fights with a consuming passion for what he perceives to be true." ~ Demo Cratia. Votes: 1

True education expands your imagination. False education fills your mind with dogma and makes you a prisoner of conformity. Votes: 1

We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore. Votes: 1

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes. Votes: 1

EQUAL RIGHTS and FREE DISCUSSION will be fearlessly advocated and maintained. Sectarian dogmas or tenets will be investigated and compared. Votes: 1

The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts and questions, while fools are so certain about things. Votes: 1

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless. Votes: 1

What if Science is God's way of reminding us that he is greater than the stories and dogma we have confined him to? Votes: 1

Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway. Votes: 1

People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking of becoming converted. Votes: 1

While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both. Votes: 1

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it. Votes: 1

Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand. Votes: 1

In order for one to discover Divine Truth, one must be willing and able to go beyond the religious dogma that divides, rather than unites, humanity. Votes: 1

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.] Votes: 1

An earthly dog of the carriage breed; Who, having failed of the modern speed, Now asked asylum and I was stirred To be the one so dog-preferred Votes: 1

Don't just conform; ask questions.Don't just believe if it isn't your truth.Don't follow dogma; it is blindness.Just love; don't kill to go to heaven. Votes: 1

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence. Votes: 1

Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it is good or bad. And your definition determines your response. Votes: 1

To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma. Votes: 1

God seemed to have become a brand, a packaging, and people purchase this trusted brand with such faith and devotion that they no longer care who the vendor is. Votes: 1

Karate is not A religion, cult or dogma. It is incumbent on every generation of martial artists, to find the weaknesses of the previous generations, not to revere it . . . Votes: 1

Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion. Votes: 1

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. Votes: 1

Its all about perspective, that is how you look at things. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether an experience, event, situation whatever is good or bad. And your definition determines your response. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Belief is made up of the same non-substance of which we ourselves are composed. The test of any belief system, then, is the degree to which this same light is permitted to shine through. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. 5) Votes: 1

People create sins out of nothing and in doing so have enslaved their fellow man! Man is not bound by sin but man is bound by the idea that almost everything he is doing is a sin! Votes: 1

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become. Votes: 1

Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself. Votes: 1

The Men of Faith will play the cup-bearers at this lifelong bacchanal, filling and ever filling again with the warm liquor that the Intelligences, in sad and sober privacy behind the scenes, will brew for the intoxication of their subjects. Votes: 1

Here is the woman who had seriously considered taking LSD under the supervision of a medical doctor so she could have "a mind-altering experience," who had read herself straight out of Mormonism and into Eastern religious thought--but refused to replace one dogma with another. Votes: 1

I am what I might term an unprejudiced sceptic. I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things 'on principle,' as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not ashamed to boast of the insane fact. Votes: 1

Dogma not only results in the form of gross, zealous behavior such as the killing of ethnic minorities as part of a cultural cleansing, it is substantiated by warped statements of certainties that corrupt the mind and make you a slave to further the agenda the organization that initiated it. Votes: 1

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 solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. Votes: 1

The bare knowledge of God's will is inefficacious, it doth not better the heart. Knowledge alone is like a winter sun, which hath no heat or influence; it doth not warm the affections, or purify the conscience. Judas was a great luminary, he knew God's will, but he was a traitor. Votes: 1

Religious dogma not only results in the form of gross, zealous behavior such as the killing of ethnic minorities as part of a cultural cleansing, it is substantiated by warped statements of certainties that corrupt the mind and make you a slave to further the agenda the organization that initiated it. Votes: 1

Every dogma must have its day. Votes: 0

Man's best friend is his dogma. Votes: 0

Please clean up after your dogma. Votes: 0

One must overcome history by dogma. Votes: 0

Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma. Votes: 0

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Votes: 0

My karma just ran over my dogma. Votes: 0

You can't pay a landlord in dogma. Votes: 0

In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma. Votes: 0

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost. Votes: 0

The dogma of the Ghost in the machine. Votes: 0

Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma. Votes: 0

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal. Votes: 0

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma Votes: 0

The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake. Votes: 0

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma. Votes: 0

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. Votes: 0

Christianity is a way of life - not a dogma! Votes: 0

Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma. Votes: 0

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty. Votes: 0

Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma. Votes: 0

There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy. Votes: 0

Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth. Votes: 0

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service. Votes: 0

To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma. Votes: 0

The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen. Votes: 0

Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge. Votes: 0

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution. Votes: 0

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency. Votes: 0

There is no dogma, there isn't anything about how the universe works. Votes: 0

I don't believe in the hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so called civilized-society Votes: 0

Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. Votes: 0

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry. Votes: 0

I find it interesting how we get carried away by the dogma a-la-mode. Votes: 0

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma. Votes: 0

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress. Votes: 0

When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day. Votes: 0

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy. Votes: 0

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies. Votes: 0

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning. Votes: 0

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma. Votes: 0

God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect. Votes: 0

I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things. Votes: 0

Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening. Votes: 0

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Votes: 0

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen! Votes: 0

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma. Votes: 0

Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma. Votes: 0

It's only a dogma that hells exists; it isn't a dogma that there's anybody in it. Votes: 0

You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate. Votes: 0

Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it. Votes: 0

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma. Votes: 0

Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork. Votes: 0

Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset. Votes: 0

. . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . . Votes: 0

The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.' Votes: 0

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity. Votes: 0

Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself. Votes: 0

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations. Votes: 0

The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma. Votes: 0

As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry. Votes: 0

The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Votes: 0

Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote. Votes: 0

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma. Votes: 0

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught. Votes: 0

Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity. Votes: 0

A lot of the differences between people have biologic underpinnings. Now, we have a dogma of egalitarianism. Everyone's the same. Votes: 0

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin. Votes: 0

I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well. Votes: 0

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma." Votes: 0

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma. Votes: 0

The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes. Votes: 0

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting. Votes: 0

Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Votes: 0

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma. Votes: 0

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting Votes: 0

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal. Votes: 0

I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong. Votes: 0

Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day. Votes: 0

There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching. Votes: 0

Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated Votes: 0

A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process. Votes: 0

Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority. Votes: 0

Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma. Votes: 0

Like the whole DOGMA thing, screenings, bringing people together. I love when I hear that people I've brought together are working on projects. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, some in Washington remain tied to the dogma that responsible energy development cannot be achieved without taking a wrecking ball to the environment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble. Votes: 0

Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees. Votes: 0

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it. Votes: 0

In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell. Votes: 0

Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma. Votes: 0

Ignore the received wisdom of any industry you're entering. Never be trapped by dogma. Never let other people's opinions drown out your own inner voice. Votes: 0

The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma. Votes: 0

We crave, we deeply yearn for, release from the limitations of a dogma that declares separation, disunity, and judgment to be the essential condition of life. Votes: 0

In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the Bible are scientifically impossible. Votes: 0

Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant. Votes: 0

Learning emerges from discovery, not directives; reflection, not rules; possibilities, not prescriptions; diversity, not dogma; creativity and curiosity, not conformity and certainty; and meaning, not mandates. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality. Votes: 0

The importance of Man, which is the one indispensable dogma of the theologians, receives no support from a scientific view of the future of the solar system. Votes: 0

For me this book was a very practical explanation of one man's experience of Enlightened awareness in in the face of or in light of dogma-oriented wisdom. Votes: 0

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded Votes: 0

Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming. Votes: 0

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma. Votes: 0

Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Votes: 0

There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist. Votes: 0

Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope. Votes: 0

A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way. Votes: 0

Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god. Votes: 0

The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there is no Devil ? Votes: 0

A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials. Votes: 0

What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith any other American has is his business. Votes: 0

Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by dogma and guarded by tradition. Votes: 0

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Go your own way. Question everything. Accept nothing. Accept no dogma, no can't. There are too many people walking around thinking they're sacred cows, and they're only half right Votes: 0

In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean dogma influenced each of them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in), people don't speak their beliefs easily, or publicly. Votes: 0

Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern. Votes: 0

Look, I think the notion that there's a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense. Votes: 0

I feel like we need to be aware of the ways we use and misuse religious dogma: whether it takes us deeper into love and inclusion or it separates us. Votes: 0

If you read the literature of Soviet Communism, you see a dogma that's chilling. On the other hand, if you read the literature of anti-communism, it's every bit as dogmatic. Votes: 0

Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense. Votes: 0

I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow. Votes: 0

It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at home with nature and the infinite. Votes: 0

I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today. Votes: 0

The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a dogma can only be explained on sociological grounds. Votes: 0

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory. Votes: 0

The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which the new dogma... has swept through the left-of-centre governing classes. Votes: 0

The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water. Votes: 0

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change. Votes: 0

What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love. Votes: 0

Buddhism is more a philosophy for living rather than a religion or dogma - it's about being awake, free from illusions and fear, so that compassion and loving kindness permeates all of our relationships. Votes: 0

The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process. Votes: 0

As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to dogma as any junior member of the Spanish Inquisition. Votes: 0

The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a 'fair' reward, nor should there be any risk to anyone to fail. Votes: 0

Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user. Votes: 0

Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold. Votes: 0

Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert opinions into dogma, and kill off all opposition, even silent. Votes: 0

It was a dogma throughout most of the 20th century that quantum science only applied to subatomic matter, and we now know that not to be true. One of the major discoveries was Quantum Holography. Votes: 0