“I won't fit inside insect colonies with compost for brain and bloodlust for divinity.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“When ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Any theology that starts with ethnic narcissism, by default becomes the lowest form of smut on earth.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness. — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
“Slavery is bad, but even worse is blind discipleship to hallucinations.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Any book, old or new, that claims to hold all the answers to life, is a scam.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. [A caution he gives his students, to… — Niels Bohr 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is not (as you have charged) to paint religion with a broad brush. I am very quick to distinguish gradations of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image