Belief Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas. It may…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Young gentlemen whose whiskers have not yet developed are authoritatively deciding that nothing can be decided, and dogmatically denouncing all dogmas. We meet them…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the…

— Sigrid Undset

Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.

— H. P. Blavatsky

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Don't let fear and guilt control you, for they are the products of man made dogmas.

— Peter Marley

Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and…

— David Icke

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

— H. L. Mencken

Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a…

— D. H. Lawrence

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security…

— Eckhart Tolle

Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found…

— Norman Lamm

Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This…

— Bertrand Russell