Quotes About Dogma

when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason - but one cannot have both.

When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

His lack of faith in reason was why he was so fanatically dedicated to it. You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

religious wars, which are, to cite a quote generally attributed to Napoleon, "people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend

Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts.

Lo más difícil fue enfrentarme al dogma de mis verdaderos padres: No podemos pagar eso. Deja de pensar solo en ti mismo. ¿Por qué no puedes pensar en los demás? Ellos usaron estas y otras frases similares para infundirme un sentimiento de culpabilidad y así suprimir mi avaricia.

A religious war is like killing someone over who has the better imaginary friend.

Ideology is the science of idiots.

A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

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

People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.

A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.

The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.