Agreement Quote by George Orwell

“At any given moment, there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas, which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.…

— Anonymous

“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.…

— Peter Lucas

orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.

— Gertrude Atherton

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

— George Orwell

“It should go without saying that these rival belief systems [Judaism, Islam, Christianity] are all equally uncontaminated by evidence.”

— Sam Harris

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

— George Orwell

“The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel…

— Richard M. Rorty

“Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself. It holds a specific view of God, which is touted as…

— Timothy Keller

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.

— Norman Lamm

The problem is, most people don't like to hear suggestions that directly confront or run counter to their most sacred beliefs.

— Neale Donald Walsch

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes…

— Edgar Quinet

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

— Benjamin Whichcote