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

Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance. — D.T. Suzuki

My mind rejects the whole present social order and Christianity - home, the recognised virtues, classes of life, and religious doctrines — James Joyce

The noble-minded are all-encompassing, not stuck in doctrines. Little people are stuck in doctrines. — Confucius

Every man produces only to the capacity of their philosophies of life or doctrines as we Christians call it. — Sunday Adelaja

The doctrines of despair, of spiritual or political tyranny or servitude, were never taught by such as shared the serenity of nature. — Henry David Thoreau

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

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas. — Antonio Tabucchi

To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day. — Rosa Bonheur

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

The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. — Freeman Dyson

Morality divorced from the doctrines of the gospel is not that holiness which the gospel requires. — John Owen

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. — Thomas Love Peacock

Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines. — Maria Mitchell

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus. — Thomas Jefferson

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death. — George Santayana

The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate. — Tobsha Learner

American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet. — Clayton M Christensen

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it. — Noam Chomsky

The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention. — Ezra Taft Benson

Holiness in the purest form is independent of all textual doctrines, all churches and all institutions. — Abhijit Naskar

Religion is an experience, not a bunch of doctrines. — Abhijit Naskar

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship. — Andre Gide

Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Bring all your power out my friend, and throw away such Gods, such doctrines, such institutions, that impede in the path of human progress. — Abhijit Naskar

Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions. — Edward Abbey

History has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines. — Paul Tillich

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. — H.L. Mencken

Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around. — Amin Maalouf

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky. — Henry David Thoreau

A History of Economic Doctrines" - written by Gide and Rist — M.L. Jhingan

The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him. — Charles Hodge

Our discernment of Christian doctrines must include a basic knowledge of the history of the church. — Anonymous

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject ... — William Graham Sumner

We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

people's attempts to mangle religious doctrines to fit their own purposes. — Joyce Brandon

I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines. — Carl Rogers

A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine ... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life. — Thomas Brooks

The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked. — Frances Xavier Cabrini

Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty. — J.C. Ryle

To dream in doctrines, how tidy! — John Le Carre

Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy. — Sydney J. Harris

Christianity finds all its doctrines stated in the Bible, and Christianity denies no part, nor attempts to add anything to the Word of God. — William F. Buckley Jr.

In the lonely hours, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about eternal things. I have contemplated the comforting doctrines of eternal life. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods. — Thomas Jefferson

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed. — O. Henry

To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind. — John Newton

The doctrines which the Jews had been spreading throughout the land for years could not but have helped to undermine the Church's power. — Lewis Browne

The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap. — Charles Spurgeon

Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so. — Alfred Marshall

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. — Noam Chomsky

The result of preaching totalitarian doctrines is to weaken the instinct by means of which free peoples know what is or is not dangerous. — George Orwell

Demanding a separation between church and state isn't enough; the churches' basic doctrines must be changed, with homophobia written out forever. — Michelangelo Signorile

Together with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is an indispensable witness of the doctrines of Christ and His divinity. — Tad R. Callister

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state. — Clarence Darrow

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man. — Thomas Jefferson

If, therefore, a man will so live as to show that he feels and believes the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity, he must live above the world. — William Law

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies. — Malcolm Wallop

I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity. — Joseph Lister

Learning to fully understand the doctrines of the gospel is a process of a lifetime and comes 'line upon line, precept upon precept. — Cheryl A. Esplin

People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness. — Han Fei

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity — Austin Osman Spare

An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West. — Sir John Woodroffe

Self-righteousness can feed upon doctrines - as well as upon works! — John Newton

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another. — Ayn Rand

Doctrines are statements designed to point us to God; they are not meant as objects of faith themselves. — Donald Fairbairn

It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes. — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

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

You can have all of your doctrines right - yet still not have the presence of God. — Leonard Ravenhill

The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. — Bodhidharma

Dim or indistinct views of sin are the origin of most of the errors, heresies and false doctrines of the present day. If — J.C. Ryle

The doctrines that have been preached in our churches in Africa and globally has not been helpful for believers to dominate the earth. — Sunday Adelaja

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike. — James A. Garfield

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young. — Madame De Stael

Only very few men have the gift of thinking new and original ideas and of changing the traditional body of creeds and doctrines. — Ludwig Von Mises

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself. — Timothy Keller

Prayer must emanate from the heart, where God resides, and not from the head where doctrines and doubts clash. — Sathya Sai Baba

Well-taught doctrines and principles have a more powerful influence on behavior than rules. — Dallin H. Oaks

Believers in the doctrines of modern Christendom will reap damnation to their souls. — Bruce R. McConkie

The hunting of monsters is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for those who feel bound by such trivial doctrines as law or national borders. — Tess Gerritsen

Had Nietzsche lived to be burned at the stake by outraged Mississippi Methodists, it would have been a glorious day for his doctrines. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary. — Benjamin Franklin

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more. — Samuel Johnson

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines. — David Lloyd-Jones

Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel. — Ezra Taft Benson

Often people see doctrines as a checklist. Here are the following nineteen truths which you've got to believe to be a good sound Christian. — N. T. Wright

A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity. — William Arthur Ward

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians. — Thomas Jefferson

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

My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi

For a scientist, altering your doctrines when the facts change is not a sign of weakness. — Albert Einstein

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land. — William Graham Sumner

As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field. — Benito Mussolini

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others. — Thomas Jefferson

Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure. — Abhijit Naskar

For between true science and erroneous doctrines, ignorance is in the middle. - HOBBES, Leviathan — Neal Stephenson

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom. — Flannery O'Connor

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere. — Benito Mussolini

Doctrines which can stand the trial of logic and reason can do without persecuting skeptics. This — Ludwig Von Mises