A Quote by Desiderius Erasmus

By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

Desiderius Erasmus

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Desiderius Erasmus
Dutch - Philosopher
October 28, 1466 - July 12, 1536

But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference.

Karl Rahner

But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power." "Is that why the church of Rome accuses all its adversaries of heresy?" "That is why, and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong.

Umberto Eco

To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the doctrines and dogmas to which they have sworn their loyalty. Instead they rationalize, revise, and re-interpret them to meet new needs and new circumstances, all the while protesting that their heresy is the purest orthodoxy.

J. William Fulbright

Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Helen Keller

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

Blaise Pascal

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.

Trip Hawkins

Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.

Ambrose Bierce

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.

Helen Keller

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

George Bernard Shaw

After 39 years of business, I'm still learning. I go through this every year -identifying new strategies that are extremely important.

Fred DeLuca

To make 'depression' synonymous with 'dangerous' is as bad as saying 'Muslim' is synonymous with 'terrorist.'

Matt Haig

Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.

Cotton Mather

In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.

R. C. Sproul

Some learning and talent professionals, together with some organisations, are finding it a challenge to make changes from these age-old HR and learning practices. However, it is inevitable that they will need to adopt new ways of learning to support new ways of working sooner rather than later.

Charles Jennings

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