Dogma famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.
-- Albert Einstein -
If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still reject that as false dogma because I know with every ounce of my being that this is not true.
-- Alice Bag -
Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.
-- Anagarika Govinda -
It's only a dogma that hells exists; it isn't a dogma that there's anybody in it.
-- Antonia White -
Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.
-- Ashraf Ghani -
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.
-- Camille Paglia -
Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom.
-- Carl Sagan -
I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
-- Charles Darwin -
So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
-- Christy Turlington -
All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.
-- Deepak Chopra -
The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.
-- Dwight L. Moody -
Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma.
-- Emilio Estevez -
I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.
-- Ernst Mach -
There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.
-- Francis Arinze -
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period
-- Francis Parker Yockey -
My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma
-- Franz Boas -
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton -
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
-- Immanuel Kant -
Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.
-- Israel Zangwill -
When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.
-- Jaak Panksepp -
The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.
-- Jean Danielou -
Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.
-- Jean-Marie Lehn -
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.
-- Jon Meacham -
No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought.
-- Kevin J. Anderson -
Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it.
-- Learned Hand -
Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.
-- Leo Strauss -
To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.
-- Leonora Speyer -
I find it interesting how we get carried away by the dogma a-la-mode.
-- Lincoln Diaz-Balart -
The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a dogma can only be explained on sociological grounds.
-- Ludwig von Bertalanffy -
I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence.
-- Mary Hesse -
The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'
-- Neale Donald Walsch -
Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.
-- Norman Lamm -
Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.
-- Peace Pilgrim -
Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.
-- Philip Guedalla -
Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.
-- Pope Innocent III -
I don't believe in the hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so called civilized-society
-- Richard Ramirez -
The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a 'fair' reward, nor should there be any risk to anyone to fail.
-- Robert Agostinelli -
Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it.
-- Robert Anton Wilson -
I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.
-- Robert Mapplethorpe -
One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.
-- Sigrid Undset -
In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.
-- Storm Jameson -
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
-- Thomas Aquinas -
The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.
-- Thomas Huxley -
The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.
-- Tommy Douglas -
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.
-- Zelda Fitzgerald -
Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.
-- Flannery O'Connor -
I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.
-- Justin Broadrick -
Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.
-- Louis L'Amour -
Like the whole DOGMA thing, screenings, bringing people together. I love when I hear that people I've brought together are working on projects.
-- Michelle Glick -
Fundamentalists can't take a joke. Ever. They want us to blindly obey, parrot everything they do, and believe in their dogmas.
-- Shahin Najafi -
Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
-- Bill Bixby -
Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world!
-- Roger Bacon -
Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.
-- Felix Adler -
Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.
-- Roswell Dwight Hitchcock -
Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness.
-- Samuel Warren Carey -
I think that the fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in "hard" science, could become a dogma, can be explained only on sociological grounds.
-- Ludwig von Bertalanffy -
Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.
-- Maajid Nawaz
