Doctrine Quotes · Page 17

Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not given…

— Buddha

Doctrine does matter. But one must ever be reminded that to be right on doctrine does not mean one is right with…

— John Napier

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What the [James] Monroe Doctrine stated, in effect, is that the US should dominate the hemisphere.

— Noam Chomsky

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

— John Flavel

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

— Steven Pinker

Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

— Jerry Fodor

Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But…

— Charles Krauthammer

But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians…

— Bernadette Devlin

To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General (33rd Degree Masons), we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the…

— Albert Pike

Scripture is our norming norm and tradition is our normed norm and that in a doctrinal controversy Scripture alone has absolute veto…

— Roger E. Olson

Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For…

— Thomas Merton

the most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy. ...…

— Lillie Devereux Blake

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in…

— Elihu Root

Salvation in its true and full meaning is synonymous with exaltation or eternal life and consists in gaining an inheritance in the…

— Bruce R. McConkie

It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or…

— Noah Webster

It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted…

— William Rehnquist

After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the…

— James Boswell

The International Criminal Court, like most international institutions, is a wonderful idea. A noble idea. All it needs to work is planetary…

— James Lileks

I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is…

— Angelina Grimke

It is this claim to a monopoly of meaning, rather than any special scientific doctrine, that makes science and religion look like…

— Mary Midgley

And let me adde, that he that throughly understands the nature of Ferments and Fermentations, shall probably be much better able than…

— Robert Boyle

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition…

— Henry Adams

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

— Joseph Priestley

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New…

— Thomas Paine

At the end of the day, the only people a One Voice doctrine silences are those who should be the most loyal.

— Tony Dungy

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

— Samuel Johnson

“Doctrine without its correspondent principle remains barren, if not lifeless, of which the Greek Church seems an instance; or”

— John Henry Newman

The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is…

— H. L. Mencken

“We believe that religions are basically the same…they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.”

— Steve Turner

Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare…

— Ephrem the Syrian

The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or…

— Frederick Pollock

If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.

— Philip Yancey

To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.

— Bernard Crick

Sound doctrine does not enter into the hard and disobedient heart; but, as if beaten back, enters anew into itself.

— Justin Martyr

Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how…

— Paul Wolfowitz