Dogmatic Quotes

• A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Innovation, Novelty, Dangerous

  Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony

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• Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Innovation, Religion, Novelty

  Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony

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• All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

  Hypatia

  Women, Self, Religion

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• I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.

  Noah Taylor

  Thinking, Organization, Spirituality

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

  Matthew Simpson

  Faith, Purpose, Today

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature

  Luther Burbank

  Children, Giving

  Luther Burbank (2000). “The Training of the Human Plant”, p.28, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Men, Important, Sides

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• A lot of people tend to think I'm a dogmatic ideologue, which I'm not.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Thinking, People, Ideologues

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea; changing a belief is trickier.

  Chris Rock

  Thinking, Ideas, Belief

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• The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Rights, Independence

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• The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

  George Eliot

  Triumph, Human Nature, Creeds

  George Eliot (2015). “Eliot's Essays: Top Essays”, p.64, 谷月社

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• Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.

  Peter Brook

  Revolution, Tradition, Dogmatism

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• The lyrics are critical of dogmatic belief, too, as I see it in many lifestyles and philosophy religious or otherwise.

  Mike Scheidt

  Religious, Philosophy, Belief

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very childish forms of conceit in a world of infinitely whirling complexity. None of us can see enough from one corner of space-time to know "all" about the rest of space-time.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Faith, Book, Space

  Robert Anton Wilson (2002). “Tsog: The Thing That Ate the Constitution”

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• There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes; that place is, of course, the world of dreams and of the repressed guilts and fears that motivate them [i.e., the unconscious]. This world the dogmatic optimism and shallow psychology of the Age of Reason had denied; and yet this world it is the final, perhaps the essential, purpose of the gothic romance to assert.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Running, Dream, Men

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• Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the fear of an after-world. Never was a child made more noble and good by the fear of a hell.

  Luther Burbank

  Fear, Children, Giving

  Luther Burbank, (2013). “The Training Of The Human Plant”, p.16, Read Books Ltd

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• Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Teaching, Ignorance, Men

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• There are two things you need if you are to uncover and communicate what is really happening in the world. One is to free of any dogmatic belief system. The second is not to give a damn what people think and say about you, or, at least, not to let that influence your decisions.

  David Icke

  Thinking, Two, People

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• No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Country, People, Progress

  Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi N. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda;general Editor: S. Gopal”

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• Man's knowledge of science has clearly outstripped his knowledge of man. Our only hope of making the atom servant rather than master lies in education, in a broad liberal education where each student within his capacity can free himself from trammels of dogmatic prejudice and apply his educational accoutrement to besetting social and human problems.

  Harry Woodburn Chase

  Education, Lying, Men

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• American civilization, from its beginnings, had combined a dogmatic confidence in the future with a naive puzzlement over what the future might bring.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Civilization, Might, Naive

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• All my other movies have the same process. Same approach. Same amount of changes. Everything. Things being made up on the fly. Changing things around. Firing and recasting. Constantly, constantly, in chronological sequence, not really knowing how this is going to end up. That is the only dogmatic approach I take towards everything.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Knowing, Ends, Made

  Source: collider.com

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• As soon as one point alone is removed from the sphere of dogmatic certainty, the discussion will not simply result in a new and better formulation which will have greater consistency but may easily lead to endless debates and general confusion.

  Adolf Hitler

  Media, Confusion, May

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• Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He is far from judging any man's belief by reference to any standard of dogmatic correctness. Nowhere does he demand of his hearers that they shall sacrifice thinking to believing.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Jesus, Believe, Teaching

  Albert Schweitzer (1953). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography: Postscript 1932-1949 by Everett Skillings”

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