Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors… — Neil Steinberg Copy Share Image
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
It was a dogma throughout most of the 20th century that quantum science only applied to subatomic matter, and we now know… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still… — Alice Bag Copy Share Image
Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
“Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse." ( History Will Teach Us Nothing )” — Sting Copy Share Image
Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in),… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea; changing a belief is trickier. — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If a state political organization is founded in part upon a state religion with a dogma based on one or a few… — Michael Harner Copy Share Image
Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
We crave, we deeply yearn for, release from the limitations of a dogma that declares separation, disunity, and judgment to be the… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image