Dogma Quotes

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.

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.

Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world!

Man's best friend is his dogma.

Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.

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.

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.

Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute.

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question...

It doesnt matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith.

The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.

Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.

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.

God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.

Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

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.

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.

Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it.

Every dogma has its day.

The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma.

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.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

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

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.