Dogmatism Quotes
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The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.
Albert Einstein -
Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.
Peter Brook
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The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far exceeding anything of the kind achieved by the Inquisition; to the point that to believe today in a miraculous happening like the Virgin Birth is to appear a kind of imbecile....
Malcolm Muggeridge -
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.
Jim Elliot -
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 the person doesn't know why he believes what he believes.
Bob Altemeyer -
Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.
Horace Greeley -
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.
Beatrice Webb -
Once dogmatism turns out the lights, you might as well close up shop as a civilization and pull up the covers as a sentient life form. You get nowhere with unquestioning certainty. It's thinking with your mind wide shut.
Bob Altemeyer
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Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
Thomas Sowell -
Both dogmatism and metaphysics … are attempts to project one’s own views on the world, and they are just as much attempts to hide precisely this projection from themselves as well as from their audience.
Alexander Nehamas -
I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case, my religious upbringing was positive. Of course, not everyone has this experience. I know many of my students are what I have come to think of as wounded Christians or wounded Jews. What came through to them was dogmatism and moralism, and it rubbed them the wrong way.
Huston Smith