(209 quotes found)
“My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not given you a system.”
Buddha
“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.”
Robert Anton Wilson
“Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life”
Andrew Lias
“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.”
Kahlil Gibran
“The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life”
Plato
“Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.”
“We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries”
Thomas Paine
“To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man”
Michael Servetus