Dogma Quotes

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

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.

Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.

I have not the most definite designs on the future.

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

There is no dogma, there isn't anything about how the universe works.

You can't pay a landlord in dogma.

There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.

No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought.

Like the whole DOGMA thing, screenings, bringing people together. I love when I hear that people I've brought together are working on projects.

We crave, we deeply yearn for, release from the limitations of a dogma that declares separation, disunity, and judgment to be the essential condition of life.

There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.

Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.

Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma.

I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well.

Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence.

You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate.

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.

Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god.

I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.

Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.

Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking of becoming converted.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway.

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.")

For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.

Divinity retains the appearance of insight, when in reality it celebrates ignorance. Its tenets are so much clay, and when the clay sets, it becomes dogma.

True education expands your imagination. False education fills your mind with dogma and makes you a prisoner of conformity.

It is better to pray with a pure heart before the family altar than to perform gaudy ceremonies in a pagoda, clad in the robes of an unworthy bonze.

Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake.

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

People create sins out of nothing and in doing so have enslaved their fellow man! Man is not bound by sin but man is bound by the idea that almost everything he is doing is a sin!

If any belief or societal dogma prevents peaceful societal change or progress, that society will inevitably be victims of miserable violent changes.

When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy.

When we blindly accept an idea, a thought, or a dogma, we become blind.

Belief is made up of the same non-substance of which we ourselves are composed. The test of any belief system, then, is the degree to which this same light is permitted to shine through.

In the search for truth, what you believe matters lessthan how you believe.

Dogma is a defence against the brain’s capacity for free thought based on the fear that such thought might lead to a scary place.

There is NO way you're living out your purpose if you're conforming to the rules. There is NO way you'll fulfill your destiny if you're trapped in the dogma of what other people think.

Sometimes we believe it is truth, not because it is truth but because it has been made truth by law or tradition. Some of those truths are nothing but dogmatized myths