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Doctrine
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 Live to explain thy doctrine
by thy life
Matthew Prior
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
The validity of a doctrine does not
depend on whose ox it gores.
Robert Jackson
Christianity, with its doctrine of humility,
of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible
with the state, with its haughtiness, its
violence, its punishment, its wars
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
And what sort of philosophical doctrine
is this - that numbers confer unlimited rights,
that they take from some persons all rights over
themselves, and vest these rights in others.
Auberon Herbert
Doctrine is nothing but the skin
of truth set up and stuffed.
Henry Ward Beecher
To kill a man is not to defend
a doctrine, but to kill a man.
Michael Servetus
The main doctrine of a fanatic's
creed is that his enemies
are the enemies of God
Andrew White
To forgive and to be forgiven are
the two points of holy magnificence
and holy modesty; round these two
centres the whole doctrine of
largesse revolves.
Charles Williams
A doctrine capable of being stated
only in obscure and involved terms
is open to reasonable suspicion of
being either crude or erroneous
Frederick Pollock
You can judge the quality of their
faith from the way they behave.
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
Tertullian