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Doctrine Quotes by Steven Pinker
- The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They make it easy…
- Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is…
- Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.
- The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
- The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the…
- The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a…
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- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition… — Henry Adams
- I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil. — Saint Basil
- The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day… — Ezra Taft Benson
- The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. — Ambrose Bierce
- For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure… — Joseph Brodsky
- Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You mess with… — Herman Cain
- Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy… — Tony Campolo
- Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's… — Noam Chomsky