Top 202 Dogmatic Quotes & Sayings

Leaders are not dogmatic. They are principled and know that change is never easy, but when it's necessary, they must lead.

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.

I'm an independent, probably. I'm not dogmatic. I've supported Democrats and Republicans.

I am not religious in the dogmatic sense... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature

It is only the dogmatic, and the humorless, that don't succumb to my charm.

One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly sinking into contempt. In every country in which a strong political life is manifested, the secularisation of politics is the consequence. Each stage of that movement has been initiated and effected by those who are most indifferent to dogmatic theology, and each has been opposed by those who are most occupied with theology.

All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again.

Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely dogmatic in tone.

Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

I'm not a dogmatic Christian and I don't believe in the Bible literally, but I realized that Jesus is basically a very Zen dude.

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation.

I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.

Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith. Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.

The Cabal is of two kinds, theoretical and practical, with the practical Cabala, which is engaged in the construction of talismans and amulets, we have nothing to do. The theoretical is divided into the lineal and dogmatic. The dogmatic is nothing more than the summary of the metaphysical doctrine taught by the Cabalist doctors. It is, in other words, the system of the Jewish philosophy.

[Sviatoslav] Schevchuk, in the dogmatic part declares himself to be a son of the Church and in communion with the bishop of Rome and the Church. He speaks of the Pope and his closeness of the Pope and of himself, his faith, and also of the Orthodox people there. The dogmatic part, there's no difficulty. He's Orthodox in the good sense of the word, that is in Catholic doctrine, no.

The mind God is looking for in man is a doubting, questioning mind, not a dogmatic mind; dogmatic reasoning is wrong reasoning. Dogmatic reason ties a huge rock to a man's foot and stops him forever from advancing.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

I've been dogmatic to use myself as a case study.

When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.

Essential to the self-image of conservatives is the notion that they are enemies of an established orthodoxy, insurgents against the dogmatic political correctness that predominates on the Left.

The most important thing is not to be dogmatic but flexible and consistent.

A lot of people tend to think I'm a dogmatic ideologue, which I'm not.

Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.

Not being dogmatic has helped me become a better stock-picker.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.

Be open-minded and available to everything and not just saying it's Jesus Christ or bust. So much of the world will do that. I find it troubling... Don't be dogmatic.

Unfortunately, in the world today, we have dogmatic people entering into politics. I don't think the two mix.

Christians and religious individuals are quickly demonized and not tolerated by the dogmatic left if their views differ.

The left has become increasingly dogmatic on immigration. Any position short of supporting open borders is described as racist. That's nonsensical.

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.

I do understand the free market, having my economics degree, and if someone on the right had some good ideas, I'm not so dogmatic that I wouldn't listen to them.

When there's change, and people fear things, they become more dogmatic in their views. They lash out: you can see it in the media, scapegoating and penal sentencing.

To be dogmatic about a cause you believe in at the age of 20 or 30 is not unusual. But to be dogmatic at age 55 or 60 shows a lack of any learning capacity.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded

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.

Hindi journalism is too dogmatic. I often wonder how it can be modernised.

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

I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world.

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

The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end.

The lyrics are critical of dogmatic belief, too, as I see it in many lifestyles and philosophy religious or otherwise.

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

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

I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.

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

One cannot be dogmatic about the right solution.

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

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

I'm not a dogmatic, purist psychopath. There's an unfair image of me - mean, crazy, hostile. I'm really a very gentle person.