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 - 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Feminism is not here to dictate to you. It’s not prescriptive, it’s not dogmatic. All we are here to do is give you a choice. If you want to run for President, you can. If you don’t, that’s wonderful, too. I’m lucky I was raised to believe that my opinion at the dinner table was valuable. My mum and I spoke as loudly as my brothers.

  Emma Watson

  Running, Brother, Believe

  "Emma Watson, The December 2014 ELLE Cover Interview" by Lorraine Candy, www.elle.com. March 06, 2015.

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• When you're overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Reality, Judging, Mind

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• And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmatic world of the present day, she keeps on proclaiming the outstanding value of Beauty for the sake of Beauty, through her very conception of Godhead, of religion and of life.

  Savitri Devi

  Beautiful, People, India

  Savitri Devi, G. D. Savarkar (1939). “A Warning to the Hindus”

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• One must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes, cold scholasticism, or an isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.

  Che Guevara

  Moving, Order, Justice

  Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.226, Ocean Press

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• The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as often happens in such cases, they went too far. The laconic tended to become dogmatic, and chess began to lose its freshness, originality and charm.

  Alexander Kotov

  Teaching, Chess, Originality

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• Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence.

  Mary Hesse

  Science, Ideas, Practice

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• The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophy, Atheism, Principles

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• When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic.
  We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.

  Oswald Chambers

  Sight, People, Mind

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.190, Discovery House

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• We're not just dogmatic about this-we're bulldog-matic!
  Sola Scriptura is non-negotiable!

  Steve Lawson

  Bulldogs

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