The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
“We need some heterodoxy in social science in order for them to avoid death by suffocation under dogmatism.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion! — Moliere Copy Share Image
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Dogmatism increases in direct proportion to a person's inability to prove a point.” — Donald J. Walters Copy Share Image
“Once again reality has proved that no particular group has a monopoly over demagogy, dogmatism, and ignorance.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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… — Bob Altemeyer Copy Share Image
The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian… — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains. — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“The claim that there is no alternative but perdition to a worldview that shows how everything fits together and makes perfect sense… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“The American people spend thousands of dollars to propagate the doctrines of the fall of man, the creation of the world out… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
“... everything based on arguments involving the ''is'' of identidy and the older el (elementalistic) 'logic' and 'psychology', such as the prevailing… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“For it is the fate of every myth to creep by degrees into the narrow limits of some alleged historical reality, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Missionaries in the developing world waste a lot of time and money (not to mention the goodwill of non-Christians) proselytizing to the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image