Affair Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

“The more one liberated oneself from the dogmas, the more one sought as it were a justification of this liberation in a cult of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Thomas Jefferson

“I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the power of doctrines — how support for a false dogma can become politically mandatory, and how…

— Paul Krugman

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and…

— David Icke

It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those…

— Karl Kraus

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

— Eckhart Tolle

I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

— George Eliot

When certain people have certain beliefs, they can be unyielding, and that's really what faith is. There's a large place in the world for…

— Stephen J. Dubner

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton