Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
“(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Donald Trump didn't emerge from the orthodoxy of the Republican Party. And so there's going to be bigger differences than normal. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Donald Trump does not stick to Republican orthodoxy, which, you know, and this is always supposed to have been his downfall. Maybe… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
“In reality, orthodoxy comes into being only after there are choices to be made, with competing, and mutually exclusive, options. Heresy is… — Eric A. Eliason Copy Share Image
I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant ,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
[I]t's up to Republicans to expose the bureaucracies and criticize the orthodoxies - to ask why visas for travel to the United… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
“Theology is just not important in Judaism, or in any other religion, really. There's no orthodoxy, as you have it in the… — Hyam Maccoby Copy Share Image
I have never in my life encountered a religion as oppressive, cold, and stiff as Progressivism. I've never known a faith more… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
“Man is free only within communion. If the Church wishes to be the place of freedom, she must continually place all the… — John D. Zizioulas Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“All Truths of Orthodoxy emerge from one truth and converge in one truth, infinite and eternal. That truth is the God-man Christ.… — St. Justin Popovich Copy Share Image
When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized. — Helen Foster Snow Copy Share Image
“If my church or your church isn’t praying, we shouldn’t be boasting in our orthodoxy or our Sunday morning attendance figures.1” — Eric Mason Copy Share Image
“the idea of 'orthodoxy' or a 'state church' is not a good way of looking at Judaism before 70.” — Lester L. Grabbe Copy Share Image
You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or without compassion.” — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“What is the basic difference between saying 'I know that God exists' and saying 'I know that love exists'?” — Anthony Bloom Copy Share Image
Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day. — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I want the least number of decision makers. We want to empower people to get more things done and also give permission… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
“If everybody who had brains and doubts left Orthodoxy, we would be in a great deal of trouble.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image