Dogma Quotes

370 Dogma quotes by 262 unique authors

The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and… — Laozi
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes… — Kenny Smith
A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of… — Swami Vivekananda
Roman Catholics utter their Papal edicts, Protestants quote their Bible, Fundamentalists declare their orthodox theological dogmas, and we are all expected to renounce private reflection… — Robert H. Schuller
So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the… — Ramakrishna
To check centralization and usurping of power ... we require a new laissez-faire. The old laissez-faire was founded upon a misapprehension of human nature, an… — Russell Kirk
The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events,… — John Henry Newman
There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching. — Nhat Hanh
Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind… — George Bernard Shaw
Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who… — Gabrielle Roth
We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and… — Sue Monk Kidd
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived. — H. L. Mencken
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science… — William S. Burroughs
Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at… — Bertrand Russell
Learning emerges from discovery, not directives; reflection, not rules; possibilities, not prescriptions; diversity, not dogma; creativity and curiosity, not conformity and certainty; and meaning, not… — Stephanie Pace Marshall
Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma,… — Brian Froud
Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. One word absent from a sentence can drastically change the true intended… — Suzy Kassem
... Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can… — Garry Kasparov
So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma. — Christy Turlington
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the… — William Robertson Smith
When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical,… — Don Nickles
The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a guide to action.… — Mao Zedong
Thought must never submit, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a preconceived idea,… — Henri Poincare
Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness… — William O. Douglas
IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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