Dogma Quote by Leonora Speyer Download Open image “To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.” — Leonora Speyer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dogma Pedantry
Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others. — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware. — Harold Lasswell Copy Share Image
The trees are God's great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green Across the world His thoughts serene. — Leonora Speyer Copy Share Image
I believe in anthologies, although I know they offer only a glimpse. — Leonora Speyer Copy Share Image
“The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which is almost always applicable. The word comes from two Greek roots, meaning “right opinion.” These are books for which there is one and only one right reading; any other reading or interpretation is fraught with peril, from the loss of an “A” to the… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual,… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
My rap comes from a sociological standpoint rather than picking a particular side or dogma or ideology. I just want people to be free… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
I reject the idea there are just two sides. I think that with the amount of ideas and thoughts there are, it's not even… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote. — George Sanders Copy Share Image
Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
“The dogma of the impossibility of determining the atomic constitution of substances, which until recently was advocated with such fervor by the most able chemists, is beginning to be abandoned and forgotten; and one can predict that the day is not far in the future when a sufficient collection of facts will permit determination of the internal architecture of molecules.… — Wilhelm Korner Copy Share
