Doctrines Quotes

• There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin'd Words.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Guard
  • Defence
  • Doctrines

• May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to be attained over oneself and purity of the heart.

  

  Ashoka
  • Common
  • Doctrines
  • Attained

• Let all listen, and be willing to listen to the doctrines professed by others.

  

  Ashoka
  • Listen
  • Doctrines
  • Professed

• The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Religion
  • Resolved
  • Doctrines

• Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.

  

  Martin Luther
  • False
  • Authors
  • Missionaries

• My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Cultures
  • Hinduism

• Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red...But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Pictures
  • Impressionism
  • Confections

• My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Result
  • Ahimsa
  • Doctrines

• Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental state or on how an immaterial mind and bodily events act on each other.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Enlightenment

• We do not wish incorrect and unsound doctrines to be handed down to posterity under the sanction of great names, to be received and valued by future generations as authentic and reliable, ... Errors in history and doctrine, if left uncorrected by us who are conversant with the events, and who are in a position to judge of the truth or falsity of the doctrines, would go to our children as though we had sanctioned and endorsed them.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Doctrines
  • Sanction
  • Future Generations

• For the political leader the religious doctrines and institutions of his people must always remain inviolable; or else has no right to be in politics, but should become a reformer, if he has what it takes!

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Leader

• I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.

  

  Joseph Lister
  • Christianity
  • Believer
  • Doctrines

• True conversion occurs as you continue to act upon the doctrines you know are true and keep the commandments, day after day, month after month.

  

  Bonnie L. Oscarson
  • Commandments
  • Conversion
  • Doctrines

• Religion is another name for the realization of Truth. It consists in becoming and being one with the Supreme Being. Doctrines and dogmas are only details of a secondary nature.

  

  Narayanananda Swami
  • Truth
  • Religion
  • Doctrines

• The characters of man's heart, blotted and confounded as they are with dissembling, lying, counterfeiting, and erroneous doctrines, are legible only to him that searcheth hearts.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Characters
  • Hearts
  • Doctrines

• Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Religious
  • Illusions
  • Doctrines

• Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity.

  

  Austin Osman Spare
  • Thoughts
  • Conformity
  • Doctrines

• I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Obstacles
  • World prosperity
  • Minds of Men

• Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error.

  

  Norman Geisler
  • Church
  • Orthodox
  • Doctrines

• The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other; inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines; it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false; the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Dangerous
  • Faults
  • Discovered