Dogma Quotes

370 Dogma quotes by 262 unique authors

If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and dogmas, then, strictly… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. — Abraham Lincoln
To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is… — Thomas A. Edison
One must overcome history by dogma. — Henry Edward Manning
All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between… — Bertrand Russell
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind. To do so… — Wangari Maathai
I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my whole life, are… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies. — Benjamin Franklin
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting,… — Thomas Jefferson
You are never dedicated to do something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow.… — Robert M. Pirsig
I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is… — Bertrand Russell
What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith any other American… — John F. Kennedy
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no… — Stephen Jay Gould
The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter were determined by… — Bertrand Russell
Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale.… — Paul Johnson
The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity… — Frans de Waal
What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a… — Rajneesh
In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had… — Colm Toibin
One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. The… — Stanley Hauerwas
In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the Bible are scientifically… — Stephen Kinzer
In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of their… — Sue Monk Kidd
I feel like we need to be aware of the ways we use and misuse religious dogma: whether it takes us deeper into love and… — Sue Monk Kidd
Unfortunately, some in Washington remain tied to the dogma that responsible energy development cannot be achieved without taking a wrecking ball to the environment. — Roy Blunt

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