Best Doctrine Sayings
967 Doctrine quotes by 603 unique authors
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Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most…
— Charles Spurgeon
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When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps…
— Adolf Hitler
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Convince us of our errors of doctrine, if we have any, by reason, by logical arguments, or by the Word of God, and we will…
— Orson Pratt
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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.
— Thomas a Kempis
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To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars
— Leo Tolstoy
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Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to…
— Ayn Rand
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Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the…
— Ayn Rand
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According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C.…
— Carl Sagan
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Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would…
— Wilfred Trotter
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The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by…
— John Stuart Mill
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The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of…
— Paul Feyerabend
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Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is…
— Bertrand Russell
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When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the…
— Charles Darwin
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Dhyan means meditation. Meditation means awareness, watchfulness, a silent witnessing of all the processes of the mind. And the magic of watching is that as…
— Rajneesh
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Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it. Science is an…
— Freeman Dyson
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We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then, is my true…
— Dalai Lama
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