If you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn't make sense - you're ready for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if [President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela] thinks we’re trying to assassinate… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
I don't see how one can "believe in organized religion." What does it mean to believe in an organization? One can join… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Realism as a foreign policy doctrine means basically you don't care about values; you consider them a luxury, and it leads to… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to… — B. B. Warfield Copy Share Image
“And then our late grand controversy, concerning the qualifications necessary for admission to the privileges of members in complete standing in the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
[Joseph Ratzinger] is a man who as the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had everything in his… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
At that time I had not yet been taught the doctrine I was later to learn so hurriedly in the Lager: that… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“Since the day I was born, the world had told me I must accept whatever woth men assign me. And maybe, despite… — Xiran Jay Zhao Copy Share Image
Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
The doctrine of hell does not stand alone as a kind of ancient Christian horror story. Rather, hell is inseparable from three… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
The Christians believe that Jesus Christ died to save man. With you it is belief in a doctrine, and this belief constitutes… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It doesn't do to say that heresy produces the development of doctrine, because that annoys the theologians. But it is true to… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
A principle familiar to propagandists is that the doctrine to be instilled in the target audience should not be articulated: that would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Those who speak of blind obedience may appear to know many things, but they do not understand the doctrines of the gospel.… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When the term Christian or even Protestant is used, it seldom refers to any particularly evangelical doctrine or way of life. More… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and… — James P. Cannon Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself. It holds a specific view of God, which is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
![“You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if [President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela] thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war. And I don’t think any oil shipments will stop. [...] We…” quote by Pat Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5c2/pat-robertson-1972_ability_you-know-i-don-t-know-about-this-doctrin_1056522.jpg)
![“[Joseph Ratzinger] is a man who as the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had everything in his hands. He conducted all the investigations, and went on, went on, went on, until he couldn't go any further in the execution.” quote by Pope Francis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e74/pope-francis-85_congregation_joseph-ratzinger-is-a-man-who-as-the-pre_146136.jpg)
![“When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [the voice of the people is the voice of God], as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science.” quote by Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5f6/charles-darwin-507_agnosticism_when-it-was-first-said-that-the-sun-stoo_226722.jpg)
