Dogmatism Quotes

Dogmatism Quote of the day

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.

Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.

Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves run, the ship stays put, but the impression of movement persists

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.

Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.

In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.

Dogmatism is by far the best fall-back defense, the most impregnable castle, that ignorance can find. It's also a dead give-away that the person doesn't know why he believes what he believes.

To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision.

Ist eine Lehre zur Satzung erstarrt, hat sie geendet.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin none of the philosophical sects has admitted it none therefore has spoken the truth

Experience God, don't raise a wall of dogmas between you and Him.

Truth is independent of all dogmas, ancient or modern.

Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]

Truth doesn't pay homage to creeds. Creeds must adjust themselves to be compatible with the truth.

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.

For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.