Business Quote by Bertrand Russell

Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This…

— Bertrand Russell

“Dogmatism compensates for evidence.”

— Dana Wallace

“Dogmatism is inversely proportional to evidence.”

— Dana Wallace

It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those…

— Karl Kraus

“I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the power of doctrines — how support for a false dogma can become politically mandatory, and how…

— Paul Krugman

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

— Pierre Bayle

“It is an interesting observation on today's religious climate that many people now get every bit as steamed up about insisting that 'all religions…

— N.T. Wright

“Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This…

— Bertrand Russell

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

— H. L. Mencken

The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the “dogmatist.”

— Jean Guitton

“Is it true that dogmatism "means assertiveness without knowledge?" How do you know that the assertiveness is without knowledge? When the eleven disciples asserted…

— Joseph Fielding Smith

Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton