Dogmas Quotes

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

— H. L. Mencken

Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.

— J. F. C. Fuller

Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.

— Anagarika Govinda

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

— Swami Vivekananda

Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world!

— Roger Bacon

Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

— Herbert Spencer

“I am more interested in dogs than in dogmas. Obviously,”

— Rupert Sheldrake

Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.

— H. P. Blavatsky

To think that this is the only universe, that the physical creation is all there is, these are the dogmas of our…

— Frederick Lenz

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

I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of…

— Margaret Atwood

“What an irony that modern man, engaged as he is in the pursuit of knowledge, allows himself to be stymied by the…

— B.S. Murthy

Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.

— B. R. Ambedkar

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense…

— Eckhart Tolle

By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence,…

— Bertrand Russell

If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to…

— Pope Pius IX

Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they…

— Norman Lamm

Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. It is true that every dogma crumbles sooner or later, because reality…

— Eckhart Tolle

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Our religion, with its beliefs, rituals, and dogmas becomes another segment among all the other segments that constitute our linear and fragmented…

— Stephen Batchelor

“Dogma is by definition nothing other than an interpretation of Scripture." The defined dogmas of our faith, then, encapsulate the Church's infallible…

— Scott Hahn

For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt…

— Adolf Hitler

“On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have…

— George Washington

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must…

— Abraham Lincoln

The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“[I]n the history of dogma [w]orld-old usages, laws and institutions continue to drag out their existence long after they have lost their…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

“I write nothing for publication, and last of all things should it be on the subject of religion. On the dogmas of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“I have my issues with organized religion and cafeteria-style religion, picking and choosing certain dogmas that apply or seem ethical while ignoring…

— Bryan Batt

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

“Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teaching, and most of these teaching have been…

— Gratis P. Spencer

“Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which…

— Nikola Tesla

“{ The resolution of the surviving members of the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, whom Robert Ingersoll was the commander of, at his funeral…

— Herman E. Kittredge

“Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove…

— Bertrand Russell

“Man can hardly be defined, after the fashion of Carlyle, as an animal who makes tools; ants and beavers and many other…

— G.K. Chesterton

“In line with the total assault of scientific investigation and critical rationality on our most well-cherished and established intuitions, why should we…

— Reza Negarestani

“Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the…

— G.K. Chesterton

Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.

— Margaret E. Knight