Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Religious dogma creates a perfect fertilizer for the weeds of hypocrisy. — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I like to be a creative variable rather than sticking to a dogma. — Ashish Vidyarthi Copy Share Image
“Belief is made up of the same non-substance of which we ourselves are composed. The test of any belief system, then, is… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Go your own way. Question everything. Accept nothing. Accept no dogma, no cant. There are too many people walking around thinking they're… — Rosie DiManno Copy Share Image
You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside… — Seth Copy Share Image
The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes. — William James Copy Share Image
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day. — Sumantra Ghoshal Copy Share Image
Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
“The destiny of your soul is not predicated upon acceptance of a specific dogma that happens to be "correct." A loving God… — Mark Ireland Copy Share Image
Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and… — J. Robert Oppenheimer 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
“Whereas in Europe new ideas were forced to compete against other doctrines and attitudes, with the results that people tended towards healthy… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“No one commits mass murder in the name of theism or atheism alone. Additional dogmatic principles are needed to justify such grisly… — Armin Navabi Copy Share Image
“It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that… — James Randi Copy Share Image
Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
