Doctrine Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

I argue against literal interpretation of religious doctrines. Religions make progress when they emancipate themselves from literalism, and take their doctrinal statements to be…

— Philip Kitcher

The truest interpretations are those with the best justification.

— Bernard Ramm

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world,…

— Jon Meacham

“Doctrines which can stand the trial of logic and reason can do without persecuting skeptics.”

— Ludwig von Mises

“Doctrines, though useful, are the product of analytical dissection; they recast the original, equivocal, historical material into abstract, less fully realized categories of meaning.…

— Andrew Davison

“We've learned too well to become good theoreticians, but have not learned to be good practitioners of what we preach. When ideas from books…

— Cristina Metzli Tzintzun

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of…

— Winston Churchill

The most powerful ideologies are not those that prevail against all challengers but those that are never challenged because in their ubiquity they appear…

— Michael Parenti

“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

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself

— Timothy Keller

I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.

— Marcus Aurelius