Quotes About Dogma

The overturning of the pernicious dogma that our intelligence is unchangeable holds enormous implications for every level of society: young and old, rich and poor, genius and cognitively disabled alike. No one is saying that cognitive training can turn an intellectually disabled person into a genius.

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

Some of the world's most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices.

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

They believe in a virgin birth, a resurrection, walking on water and some old guy with a white beard floating in the sky and running the world, but this they find unbelievable?" Gamache was quiet for a moment, then nodded. "It is interesting," he agreed, "what people choose to believe." And what they'd do in the name of that faith.

The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their favour, forms a sufficient proof that there is no truth in them. If there were any truth in religion, it would be even more acceptable to a mature mind than to an infant mind--yet no mature mind ever accepts religion unless it has been crippled in infancy.

la Fede è violenza, qualsiasi tipo di Fede, religiosa, politica e sportiva. Dietro ogni guerra c'è sempre un uomo di Fede che ha sparato il primo colpo.

Only religion can lead to such evil.

The dogma presents to us two things – God and love. God is love: but what does that mean? ...[I]f I said of an affectionate human being, he is love itself [,] … I must give up the name God, which expressed a special personal being, a subject in distinction from the predicate.

Matem os infiéis! Queimem os hereges! O que é novo é apenas o fato de que hoje em dia ele é vendido ao público sob o rótulo de "ciência".

You can't pay a landlord in dogma.

Religion often gets in the way of God.' – BONO, AT THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST, FEBRUARY 2, 2006

But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma ... and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your eyes and hand, and fly into your face and eyes.

You gotta challenge all assumptions. If you don't, what is doctrine on day one becomes dogma forever after.

The explosion of human knowledge has accelerated to the point where even the most brilliant can't cope with it any more. Theories have rigidified into dogma just as they did in the Middle Ages. The leading experts feel obligated to protect their creed against the heretics.

The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.

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.

Whatever my lens is, it's always going to be trying my best to see something through what I believe is going to be God's word, and not God's word in the essence of dogma or in the essence of religion, or to be right and to make other people wrong.

Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

Some people have a mandate that you can't change.