Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism. — Paul Ricoeur 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
“We need some heterodoxy in social science in order for them to avoid death by suffocation under dogmatism.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness. — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism. — Amos Bronson Alcott 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
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
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
“While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death.” — Sam Harris 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
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
“The very fact of having fixed conclusions to strive for in orthodox belief does not render the Christian philosopher dogmatic but rather… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never-relaxing crusade against skepticism and dogmatism, against disbelief and against… — Max Planck 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
Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination… — Taisen Deshimaru 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
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
“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
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
“... 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
“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
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
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
“When ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.” — 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
“I won't fit inside insect colonies with compost for brain and bloodlust for divinity.” — 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
“Slavery is bad, but even worse is blind discipleship to hallucinations.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
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
