Noun
Teaching; instruction.
That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine. Tertullian
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant
Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare to heed the desires of darkness. Ephrem the Syrian
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction. Thomas Henry Huxley
These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these. Athanasius of Alexandria
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. Kahlil Gibran