Doctrine Quotes · Page 6

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

— Ambrose Bierce

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

— Vernon A. Walters

“Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

— Henry Miller

The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.

— Michel de Montaigne

If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.

— Charles Spurgeon

Worship the Trinity, which I call the only true devotion and saving doctrine.

— Gregory of Nazianzus

Let all listen, and be willing to listen to the doctrines professed by others.

— Ashoka

An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the…

— Sir John Woodroffe

Well-taught doctrines and principles have a more powerful influence on behavior than rules.

— Dallin H. Oaks

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.

— Noam Chomsky

The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the…

— J. C. Ryle

Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views

— Gautama Buddha

There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector

— Augustine Birrell

Pantheism, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.

— Ambrose Bierce

As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical…

— Benito Mussolini

“Neither can such a doctrine argue: it simply does not understand that other doctrines exist, can exist, it simply does not know…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard;…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

People feel that the Bible is unequivocal in stating that the age of the earth is very young and so on and…

— John Lennox

We need to step up our teaching so that our youth do more on their own to understand the doctrines of Christ…

— Bonnie L. Oscarson

The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world,…

— Adolf Hitler

The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we…

— J. G. Holland

The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human…

— David Novak

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice…

— Francois Fenelon

I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of…

— Adam Weishaupt

A disciple once complained, "You tell us stories, but you never reveal their meaning to us." The master replied, "How would you…

— Thomas a Kempis

The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that…

— Sigmund Freud

For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity.…

— Thomas Huxley

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free…

— William Ellery Channing

I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have…

— Bertrand Russell

For openers, marriage is neither a matter of politics, nor is it a matter of social policy. Marriage is defined by the…

— Lance B. Wickman

Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation,

— Karl Barth

“Miracles enable us to judge doctrine, and doctrine enables us to judge miracles.”

— Blaise Pascal

The tenet of the separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine.

— Sharron Angle

This error of free will is a special doctrine of the Antichrist.

— Martin Luther

Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.

— Amin Maalouf

All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.

— R. C. Sproul

I know the rules and have a clear conscience. I'm an atheist.

— Rock Cowles