Dogma Ideas Quotes

#1. Inevitably even the most original new ideas will eventually harden into dogma or stop working for everybody.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#2. Initially, new ideas are rejected. Later they become dogma if you're right. And if you're really lucky, you can publish your rejections as part of your Nobel presentation.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

#3. There's a place for doctrine and dogma, and science and history and apologetics, but, these things are not Jesus - they are humanly manufactured attempts to make people think that having the right ideas is the same thing as loving and following Jesus.

Carl Medearis

#4. The difficulty, then, is when you create a church, an institution, and you create a dogma. When you create an ideology, that's the danger. Communism, too, is a beautiful idea, but millions of people died when communism became an ideology.

Michael Haneke

#5. Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence.

Mary Hesse

#6. Dogma
ideas uninformed by experience
is a form of ingratitude.

Susan Neiman

#7. When we blindly accept an idea, a thought, or a dogma, we become blind.

Debasish Mridha

#8. I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and cultureof their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.

John Dewey

#9. I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well.

Rob Brezsny