48 Quotes About Dogmatism
- Author Eric Hoffer
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For though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image.
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- Author Aldous Huxley
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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- Author Marty Rubin
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Every side attacks you when you don't take sides.
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- Author Bangambiki Habyarimana
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I don't like dogmas; i don't want to be kept in a box
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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Truth doesn't pay homage to creeds. Creeds must adjust themselves to be compatible with the truth.
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- Author Salman Rushdie
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...[A]nswers are easier to come by, and less reliable, than questions. If religion is an answer, if political ideology is an answer, then literature is an inquiry; great literature, by asking extraordinary questions, opens new doors in our minds.
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- Author Susan Neiman
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The claim that there is no alternative but perdition to a worldview that shows how everything fits together and makes perfect sense is a mark of fundamentalism, whether of religious or market variety. In a child, such moments are appealing, necessary and usually harmless.
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- Author John Adams
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Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.{Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams, November 13 1816}
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- Author Criss Jami
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One of the most common sense things about real world progress is that progressivism must never steer into its own dogmatism. One can be sure, at least every so often, that there eventually comes a point either to stop, to turn around, or to make a turn; lest a wall is pummeled, a cliff is tumbled, or a mere cycle is tunneled forever.
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