Dogma quotes

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◆ Religious dogma creates a perfect fertilizer for the weeds of hypocrisy.

- Steve Maraboli100

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

- Flannery OConnor99

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

- Sting99

◆ Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy99

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

- Umberto Eco99

◆ Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seento be seenis to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

- Margaret Atwood99

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

- Margaret Atwood99

◆ From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

- Salman Rushdie99

◆ Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

- Bertrand Russell99

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

- John Henry Newman99

◆ Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

- George Eliot99

◆ The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

- William Osler99

◆ The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

- Immanuel Kant99

◆ There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

- Anais Nin99