"A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest…" — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
"A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man."
More Doctrinaire Quotes
- At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion. — Carl Sagan
- If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a… — Charles Baudelaire
- In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are… — John Kenneth Galbraith
- Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's… — Allan McLeod Cormack
- I very much dislike doctrinaire liberals - they want to own your minds. And I don't like reactionary conservatives. I… — Carl Albert
- The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other… — Carroll Quigley
- Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words. — Eric Hoffer
- It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind… — Randy Newman
- The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance… — Aleister Crowley
- The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the… — James F. Cooper
- Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by… — Friedrich August von Hayek
- Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because… — Pierre Trudeau