Dogma Quotes

The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.

— Gilbert Ryle

Dogma will always defend itself.

— Peter Marley

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

— George Santayana

Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma.

— Mason Cooley

One must overcome history by dogma.

— Henry Edward Manning

I believe in GOD. (GOD = Getting Over Dogma).

— Rock Cowles

Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence.

— Salma Hayek

You can't pay a landlord in dogma.

— Jodi Picoult

Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world!

— Roger Bacon

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

— Bertrand Russell

“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”

— Rupertus Meldenius

Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Neal Adams

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.

— Anagarika Govinda

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

— Flannery O'Connor

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jean Danielou

I was raised in a very religious household - it wasn't dogma, but we were raised Christian; we went to church every…

— Adrienne C. Moore

The condition that the Taliban part with al Qaeda is not just a condition, it is an objective. We must convince them…

— Jamal Khashoggi

Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside…

— Rumi

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and…

— Anonymous

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

— Kevin J. Anderson

In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must…

— Douglas MacArthur

Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they…

— Norman Lamm

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and…

— Catharine Beecher

“The bare knowledge of God's will is inefficacious, it doth not better the heart. Knowledge alone is like a winter sun, which…

— Thomas Watson

I think that there is an infinite creative force that generates all consciousness and all matter and we are all connected and…

— Russell Brand

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point…

— Karl Kraus

“Thinking must never submit itself, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor…

— Anonymous

[According to the rigid dogma] we have to believe the United States would have so-called liberated Iraq even if its main products…

— Noam Chomsky

“The inner history of the Magian religion ends with Justinian’s time, as truly as that of the Faustian ends with Charles V…

— Oswald Spengler

Hinduism ... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible…

— Sri Aurobindo

Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the…

— William O. Douglas

Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet…

— Robert Kennedy

The mainstream perception that conservatives are close-minded and dogmatic while liberals are open-minded and free-thinking has it almost exactly backward. Liberal dogma…

— Jonah Goldberg

Some people spend their entire lives devoted to a religion that claims to be the ‘right’ religion... they often deny scientific evidence…

— David G. McAfee

You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable. I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good…

— Richard Ramirez