#dogmatic

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 G. Simpson

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Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it. ↗

— Henry Flynt

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I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

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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

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It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores. ↗

— Paul Harris

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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

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Matthew Simpson

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

— Noah Taylor

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I'm not dogmatic. ↗

— Jean-Marc Ayrault

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