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
“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
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
“My current comes from spinning particles, my compass points to where no map can lead - I won't fit inside insect colonies… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
“There is a remarkable sentence of Pascal according to which we know too little to be dogmatists and too much to be… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“The claim that there is no alternative but perdition to a worldview that shows how everything fits together and makes perfect sense… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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
“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
Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Our critique is not opposed to the *dogmatic procedure* of reason in its pure knowledge as science (for science must always be… — Immanuel Kant 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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