Dogma Quotes

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.

I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.

One must overcome history by dogma.

A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.

Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.

My rap comes from a sociological standpoint rather than picking a particular side or dogma or ideology. I just want people to be free to do what they want, as long as they don't harm others.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.

I find it interesting how we get carried away by the dogma a-la-mode.

Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.

Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.

AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.

Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.

The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

Every dogma must have its day.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

Fundamentalists can't take a joke. Ever. They want us to blindly obey, parrot everything they do, and believe in their dogmas.

A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period

There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

Ignore the received wisdom of any industry you’re entering. Never be trapped by dogma. Never let other people’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.