Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness…

“Dogmatism compensates for evidence.”

— Dana Wallace

it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false…

— Frances Wright

“There is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together into ‘coteries’ where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the…

— C.S. Lewis

It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and…

— Joyce Cary

“While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death.”

— Sam Harris

“The claim that there is no alternative but perdition to a worldview that shows how everything fits together and makes perfect sense is a…

— Susan Neiman

Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained it would…

— David Hume

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate…

— Bertrand Russell

“She was not only unable to make the least allowance for a divergence from this way, but utterly unable to conceive that another existed…

— Charles Robert Maturin

“For it is the fate of every myth to creep by degrees into the narrow limits of some alleged historical reality, and to be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.”

— Abhijit Naskar

If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but…

— Neil Postman

The idea of freedom can never be disassociated from real Prussia. The real Prussian spirit means a synthesis between restraint and freedom, between voluntary…

— Henning von Tresckow

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances…

— H. P. Lovecraft