Buddhism Quote by Stephen Batchelor

“One of the defining features of religion is that your beliefs are not troubled by facts, because they have nothing to do with facts.”

— Anonymous

“So if we completely reject, not intellectually but actually, all so-called spiritual authority, all ceremonies, rituals and dogmas, it means that we stand alone…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just,…

— Thomas Jefferson

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant…

— Adolf Hitler

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

“On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling,…

— George Washington

RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which…

— Bertrand Russell

... Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one…

— Garry Kasparov

Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking…

— Rob Bell

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling,…

— Thomas Jefferson