“The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Way To Wealth

“The noble-minded are all-encompassing, not stuck in doctrines. Little people are stuck in doctrines.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this time next year I expect to have shot past you, and to find you pitching into me for being more Darwinian than yourself. However, you have set me going, and must just take the consequences, for I warn you I will stop at no point so long as clear reasoning will take me further.

{Letter of support to Charles Darwin on his theory of evolution}”
― Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1

“Mother Nature created God as a neurological anti-depressant sentiment, but Man tore that God apart into pieces and made citadels of differentiation out of them.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Krishna Cancer

“Pardon me for budging into concoction of the aristocrats blowing their trumpets, the demagogues' doctrines, the antagonists' squeals, the hypocrites' assertions, the sycophants fawning adoration, the facebookers' slants, the youthful sneers, the pragmatic notions n of course some acquiescent aspirants....this facebook page is so bombarded by myriad posts....maddening to read n like all.....so here's wishing each one of the revered contestants all the best.....may the deserving win.....”
― Mukesh Kwatra

“Doctrines, no matter which path of human endeavor they come from, must serve the humans, not the humans serving the doctrines. “Love thy neighbor” - is a great doctrine, but more importantly, it is an unparalleled piece of magnificent human teaching – as such, whoever practices it, becomes a better human, a real human. On the other hand, there is another doctrine that says “God may purify the believers and destroy the disbelievers” – now would you, as a real conscientious human being, consider this one as a great beneficial doctrine or teaching for humanity? Far from being great, doctrines like this are the ones that compel the human society to forget its innate humanism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas

“The Holy Spirit will teach you, how to distinguish between right and wrong doctrines”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Buddha: The First Sapiens

“Deeds are divine, not doctrines. Actions are religious, not creeds.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human

“Be a human being and you'd automatically be religious, but if you try to be a scripture-worm then you'd be neither religious, nor human – you’d be a biological bag of trash.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human

“It’s the people that matters, not the traditions, doctrines or institutions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana

“A soul trapped in the cage of doctrines cannot fly.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Indoctrination is dangerous.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“I don’t see doctrines, when I talk about religions. All I see are different experiential realities of the one and the same neuronal Kingdom of God.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak

“Humanism is the purest expression of your soul as a human. It has no God to be concerned with, except for the living Gods, that is the humans. It has no doctrine to abide by, except for the natural doctrine of love and benevolence. That's the religion we need my friend.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“Slavery is bad, but even worse is blind discipleship to hallucinations.”
― Abhijit Naskar, 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All

“Everything else is expendable, but not humanhood. Every scripture, every god, every angel, every messiah, every church, every temple, every mosque, every doctrine – everything is expendable, not the innate humanhood that Mother Nature has bestowed on you through the process of natural selection.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human

“Opinions are never facts.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“..the death of Christ, commemorated in the Lords Supper, is the point in which the leading doctrines of redemption concentrate their rays, & where they shine with united lustre.- Dr. Mason, via David King, in "The Lord's Supper”
― David King

“I wouldn’t give 2 cents for all the fancy principles, doctrines, philosophies, sciences and institutions in the world, if behind them they didn’t have plain ordinary everyday conscience guiding them in the right direction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Conscience over Nonsense

“There is nothing wrong in following a teacher in the path of self-awareness, but the moment one begins to see that teacher as the authority of one's life, immediately one goes astray from the path of self-realization and indeed from the path of truth, and eventually ends up in the same kind of trap of doctrines and laws that one wanted to be free from in the first place. That's how all religions have been born. Loyalty to a teacher or messiah, inadvertently leads to psychological slavery, and in often cases, the enslaved is not even aware of the enslavement. It's a kind of illusion one lives in, where the teacher's word or the prophet's doctrines become gospel in the life of an individual. Hence, all shortcomings of that teacher or prophet creep into the life of his followers as well.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism

“You - your thoughts, your emotions, your actions are the real practical tools of peace and progress and not all the manifestos, doctrines, institutions and parties in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“Beware of intellectuals who make monotheism out of their theories of motivation.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life

“Kevlar for hide,
Titanium for spine.
Take the leap,
beyond the creed -
Awake, arise, o humankind!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Life and creed don't go together,
Creed is the ultimate life destroyer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Life and creed don't go together.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“We preach what is authentic, but we teach
what needs authentication to allow an evaluation
through reason.”
― John Mwafise Woloko, The Bible vs Theology: Lighting the Way

“All human minds confront fierce competition for ideas, each wanting to settle in with the promise to fill it with peace, joy, and fulfillment.”
― John Mwafise Woloko, The Bible vs Theology: Lighting the Way

“We should experience for ourselves the doctrines that we teach to others.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Golden Alphabet: An Exposition of Psalm 119

“Le monde a besoin d'un amour
qui transcende le corps.
Le monde a besoin d’une vérité
qui transcende les croyances.”
― Abhijit Naskar, L'humain Impossible: Cent Sonnets pour Ma Famille Mondiale