Dogmatism Quote by Bertrand Russell Download Open image “Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.” — Bertrand Russell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dogmatism Happiness Human happiness Humans Obstacles Psychology
“Dogmatism increases in direct proportion to a person's inability to prove a point.” — Donald J. Walters Copy Share Image
In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
“Happy are those who live under a discipline which they accept without question, who freely obey the orders of leaders, spiritual or temporal, whose… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves run, the… — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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, some Schelling… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“When ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 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 it would… — David Hume 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 is a… — Susan Neiman 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
It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image