“ Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. ”
- Stephen Jay Gould- Copy
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“ The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. ”
- William F. Buckley Jr.- Copy
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“ Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. ”
- Jonathan Raban- Copy
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“ If you have nothing to say, or, rather, something extremely stupid and obvious, say it, but in a 'plonking' tone of voice - i.e. roundly, but hollowly and dogmatically. ”
- Stephen Potter- Copy
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“ Of course, you may not realize that Dan Brown's novel is a bigoted, skewed, and dogmatically anti-Christian if you went by what they mainstream media say about it. ”
- Carl Olson- Copy
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“ I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are "shaggy dog" stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures. ”
- Karl Popper- Copy
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“ Ethics is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism, through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and new technologies. ”
- Claude Vorilhon- Copy
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“ When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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