Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a…

“The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which is almost always applicable. The word comes from…

— Mortimer J. Adler

In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding…

— Jerry A. Coyne

Dogma is a powerful way of closing human mind

— Peter Marley

How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when…

— Archibald MacLeish

fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual,…

— Marya Mannes

My rap comes from a sociological standpoint rather than picking a particular side or dogma or ideology. I just want people to be free…

— Killer Mike

I reject the idea there are just two sides. I think that with the amount of ideas and thoughts there are, it's not even…

— Jon Stewart

“[H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma and ignorance.”

— Ben Elton

The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others…

— Noam Chomsky

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— George Sanders

“Humans are capable of having transcendent, transformative experiences in the absence of any given dogma. We are capable of sustaining elaborate systems of false…

— John W. Loftus

Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are…

— Jerome Frank

“The dogma of the impossibility of determining the atomic constitution of substances, which until recently was advocated with such fervor by the most able…

— Wilhelm Korner

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

— Sri Aurobindo