{"quotes":[{"text":"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["dogmatism","rational","reason","religion"],"id":7363,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"We regard promissory materialism as superstition without a rational foundation. The more we discover about the brain, the more clearly do we distinguish between the brain events and the mental phenomena, and the more wonderful do both the brain events and the mental phenomena become. Promissory materialism is simply a religious belief held by dogmatic materialists . . . Who often confuse their religion with their science.","author":"John C. Eccles","tags":["brain","dogmatism","materialism","mind"],"id":8913,"author_id":"John+C.+Eccles"},{"text":"[S]cience has contributed a great deal to war and violence, and people well trained in science are sometimes not entirely rational and are even dogmatic. We have to find a way to teach reflectively, not just scientifically.","author":"Nel Noddings","tags":["dogmatism","education","rationality","reflection","responsibility","science","teaching","violence","war"],"id":15898,"author_id":"Nel+Noddings"},{"text":"Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["course","diehard","dogma","dogmatism","extremist","false","fanatic","fanaticism","follower","ignorance","lies","michael-bassey-johnson","misgiving","misuderstanding","path","religion","stoop","untruth","wind"],"id":57710,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, so that for the future it may be able to choose its path with more certainty. But it is no dwelling-place for permanent settlement. Such can be obtained only through perfect certainty in our knowledge, alike of the objects themselves and of the limits within which all our knowledge of objects is enclosed.","author":"Immanuel Kant","tags":["dogmatism","ideology","philosophy","reason","skepticism"],"id":103583,"author_id":"Immanuel+Kant"},{"text":"For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.","author":"Alister E. McGrath","tags":["dogma","dogmatism","faith","liberalism","rationalism","reason","rebellion","revolt"],"id":108666,"author_id":"Alister+E.+McGrath"},{"text":"If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize how far we are from the truth but do not seek it, we will be skeptics. If we both seek the truth and realize how far we are from it, we will be wise.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["christianity","dogmatism","skepticism","truth","wisdom"],"id":118282,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"Truth is independent of all dogmas, ancient or modern.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","dogmatism","pearls-of-wisdom","truth","truth","wisdom","wise","wise","wise-thoughts"],"id":118743,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.].","author":"Niels Bohr","tags":["caution","dogma","dogmatism","humbleness","knowledge","question","sentence","students","understanding"],"id":134283,"author_id":"Niels+Bohr"},{"text":"The very fact of having fixed conclusions to strive for in orthodox belief does not render the Christian philosopher dogmatic but rather intellectually fruitful, willing to take and follow reason further than the putatively undogmatic unbelieving philosopher.","author":"Gregory B. Sadler","tags":["belief","christian-philosophy","dogmatism","intellect","orthodoxy","philosophy","philosophy-of-religion","reason"],"id":163155,"author_id":"Gregory+B.+Sadler"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}