At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
It's a long, uphill fight to get back to original orthodoxy. We have two 'originalists' on the Supreme Court. That's something. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“Repentance is a 180 degree turn, whereas Reformation is only a 90 degree turn.” — Atom Tate Copy Share Image
“An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion. — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Spirituality is rebellion; religiousness is orthodoxy. Spirituality is individuality; religiousness is just remaining part of the crowd psychology. Religiousness keeps you a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that's just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
If you think the dominant orthodoxy - shrink your economy, render workers jobless, impoverish families, and still grow - is an oxymoron...… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
“If I do not feel a sense of joy in God's creation, if I forget to offer the world back to God… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
This is the beauty of Donald Trump, that he goes against the Republican orthodoxy, much of which has been rejected a lot… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“...This is the way we should see Christ. He is our friend, our brother; He is whatever is good and beautiful. He… — Elder Porphyrios Copy Share Image
The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Heresy arises as a pained outcry to liberate us from this strange, narrow pit, to raise us from the darkness of letters… — Daniel Chanan Matt Copy Share Image
“That this signified not a parallel co-existence of the ecclesial with the biological hypostasis but a transcendence of the latter by the… — John D. Zizoulas Copy Share Image
Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers at Princeton led by… — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
For many years there have been treatments available which are successful and usually NOT harmful for diseases, such as AIDS, cancer, cystic… — Charles C. Pixley Copy Share Image
In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street. — David Hare Copy Share Image
We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play. — Charles Schaefer Copy Share Image
I think 'punk' should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world. — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.” — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible. — Bassam Tibi Copy Share Image
Someone who wanted to challenge Orthodoxy would not be able to locate a building to hold a protest march in front of.… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads… — Paul Russo Copy Share Image
In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Talking to her, he realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
