“Seeking sacredness through scripture literalism is like sunbathing in the microwave, it only burns your skin, and cooks your brain.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“some supporters of the unrestrained free market have found that dogma: the claim that science is nothing more than politics.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
So dogma, doctrine, unexamined assumptions, that's what it is to be sharing that, the hippies shadow, no way of grounding it to… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive;… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. One word absent from a sentence can drastically change… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“Sexual distortions carry strong undertones of prejudice—sexism, racism and homophobia—that rob individuals of their individuality. Common stereotypes include “men are all dogs,”… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
“Religious creeds are a great obstacle to any full sympathy between the outlook of the scientist and the outlook which religion is… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
We can only touch spontaneity when we let go of dogma, old beliefs, old certitude's, because these things are what prevents the… — Daniel Odier Copy Share Image
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Men were, after all, not wholly inconsequent; their attachment to Mary rested on an instinct of self-preservation. They knew their own peril.… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“It's said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers. That's false, tragically false. Look for yourself. This is the… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which is almost always applicable. The word… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
Beyond doctrine or dogma, the most important component of religiosity is being kind to other people. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“[H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
“Samatha meditation is a theologically neutral spiritual practice. No devotion to a deity, guru, or dogma is needed to see remarkable results.” — Kyle Parton Copy Share Image
Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
The world is still being battered by the Western/white/Christian supremacy dogmas and practices, by the most primitive and fundamentalist 'principles'. — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
“What if Science is God's way of reminding us that he is greater than the stories and dogma we have confined him… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
“While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists can't take a joke. Ever. They want us to blindly obey, parrot everything they do, and believe in their dogmas. — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
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