It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. { Letter to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
An ideology critique that does not clearly accept its identity as satire can, however, easily be transformed from an instrument in the… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“But dogmatism—or the inclination "to identify the goal of our thinking with the point at which we have become tired of thinking"—is… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“We regard promissory materialism as superstition without a rational foundation. The more we discover about the brain, the more clearly do we… — John C. Eccles Copy Share Image
When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to… — Olympia Brown Copy Share Image
It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“There is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together into ‘coteries’ where they will henceforth encounter opposition only… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Is it true that dogmatism "means assertiveness without knowledge?" How do you know that the assertiveness is without knowledge? When the eleven… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
“All the systems which explain so precisely why the world is as it is and why it can never be otherwise, have… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“Religious creeds are a great obstacle to any full sympathy between the outlook of the scientist and the outlook which religion is… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
Suggestion is generally better than Definition. There is a seeming dogmatism about Definition that is often repellent, while Suggestion, on the contrary,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Something else changed when querinalo changed. Our immortality began to become—it is difficult to explain. None of us began to age, nor… — Jane Lindskold 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
Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“But dogmatism—or the inclination "to identify the goal of our thinking with the point at which we have become tired of thinking"—is so natural to man that it is not likely to be a preserve of the past. [Citing Lessing's January 9, 1771 letter to Mendelssohn.]” quote by Leo Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/53c/leo-strauss-12446_dogmatism_but-dogmatism-or-the-inclination-to-iden_1432351.jpg)
