#dogmatism

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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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 ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#stupidity #motivational

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#religion #religion

Ist eine Lehre zur Satzung erstarrt, hat sie geendet. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#religion #religion

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#dogmatism #comfort

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#ethics #nietzsche #ethics

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#does #dogmatism #foolishness #idealism #ignorance

In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. ↗

— William Osler

#greater #ignorance

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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