Dogmatism Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

— Douglas Horton

“Lirael almost apologized, but she held it back. She did feel sorry for Nick. It wasn’t his fault he had been chosen by an…

— Garth Nix

Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect.…

— William O. Douglas

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

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

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

— Ambrose Bierce

“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

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

“Dogmatism compensates for evidence.”

— Dana Wallace