Doctrine

Doctrine

Doctrine (from Latin: doctrina) is a codification of beliefs or a body of teachings or instructions, taught principles or positions, as the body of teachings in a branch of knowledge or belief system. The Greek analogue is the etymology of catechism.

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Famous quotes containing the word doctrine:

    “It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”
    —Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

    “A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.”
    —Tony Benn (b. 1925)