Dogma--ideas uninformed by experience--is a form of…

“The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which is almost always applicable. The word comes from…

— Mortimer J. Adler

In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding…

— Jerry A. Coyne

Dogma is a powerful way of closing human mind

— Peter Marley

How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when…

— Archibald MacLeish

fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual,…

— Marya Mannes

My rap comes from a sociological standpoint rather than picking a particular side or dogma or ideology. I just want people to be free…

— Killer Mike

I reject the idea there are just two sides. I think that with the amount of ideas and thoughts there are, it's not even…

— Jon Stewart

“[H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma and ignorance.”

— Ben Elton

The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others…

— Noam Chomsky

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.

— George Sanders

“Humans are capable of having transcendent, transformative experiences in the absence of any given dogma. We are capable of sustaining elaborate systems of false…

— John W. Loftus

Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are…

— Jerome Frank

“The dogma of the impossibility of determining the atomic constitution of substances, which until recently was advocated with such fervor by the most able…

— Wilhelm Korner

Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up…

— Sri Aurobindo