Adopted Quote by Wei Wu Wei

If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud…

— Bodhidharma

If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the…

— Bodhidharma

All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only words. They…

— Frederick Lenz

“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

Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.

— Amin Maalouf

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

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or…

— Sigmund Freud

The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge, wisdom, charity,…

— Brigham Young

“Doctrines are statements designed to point us to God; they are not meant as objects of faith themselves.”

— Donald Fairbairn

I believe certain doctrines because God says they are true; and the only authority I have for their truth is the Word of God.…

— Charles Spurgeon

We contend that ideas and/or practices may be scriptural as long as they are not condemned by scripture.

— Charles H. Kraft

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

— Timothy Keller