Heterodoxy And Orthodoxy Quotes & Sayings

Power gives you influence in the world; love gives you influence in the universe. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth. — Pete Townshend

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy. — William Warburton

Very young, I was not able to find myself interesting without intelligent response. I required the company of minds attuned to my own, but no one around gave me back the words I needed to hear. — Vivian Gornick

Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe. Consequently Agnosticism puts aside not only the greater part of popular theology, but also the greater part of anti-theology. On the whole, the "bosh" of heterodoxy is more offensive to me than that of orthodoxy, because heterodoxy professes to be guided by reason and science, and orthodoxy does not. — Thomas Henry Huxley

Along this road goes no one, this autumn eve. — Basho Matsuo

We must start from what seems a be a nullity, the unknowable, the inexpressible, the creative mystery wherein we are established. We cannot become more exact than this without introducing falsehood. — D.H. Lawrence

Ah, James, our James," she says, sounding wistful. "Can't live with him, can't kill him slowly enough." - Callie (pg. 141) — Cody McFadyen

A tree never feels how much fragrance it spreads. It's just its nature to be like that. — Moazzam Shaikh

I am quite hot-headed; I am quite impulsive. Fortunately, it doesn't last very long. — Nicola Sturgeon

The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next. — Edith Hamilton

Orthodoxy is my doxy and heterodoxy is your doxy. — Bart D. Ehrman

"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's caste of official censors to encyst and segregate and thus neutralize all contrarian forms of seeing and thinking, all (necessarily implicitly) prohibited and repressed ways of exercising disruptive and iconoclastic intuition and intellection (for to analyze and explain these things too openly is to give them publicity and potential cogency when the point is to asphyxiate them). — Kenny Smith

No one gets ahead by striving for mediocrity. — Glenn C. Stewart

The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum. — Annie Jacobsen

True, (Jefferson's) rational religion ran in rivulets outside the American mainstream, but heterodoxy is faith of a different form and, like orthodoxy, should be recognized for what it is: a way of being religious. — Stephen R. Prothero

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom. — Frederick Forsyth

All this size 0! A bit ridiculous. There's something creepy about fashion shows. The models look like they're going to be tortured. They do this strange pony walk; their heels are so high, they can hardly walk. Creepy! — Jerry Hall

The president broke his bond with the public. Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public. State of the Union addresses? It didn't matter. Legislative initiatives? It didn't matter. P.R.? It didn't matter. Travel? It didn't matter. — Matthew Dowd

Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things 'now' or wait until 'then. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The sun shines on all and all alike, It's not surprising that we feel good when we immerse ourselves in nature. — Jeffrey R. Anderson