DOGMATISM

Related Subjects: Bigotry, Creeds, Doctrine, Obstinacy

1. No dogmas nail your faith.—BROWNING, Bishop Blougram's Apology
   

2. Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.—PHILIP GUEDALLA
   

3. Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject. When men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken and have there given reins to passion without that proper deliberation and suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.—DAVID HUME
   

4. From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion. I know of no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.—CARDINAL NEWMAN, Apologia pro Vita Sua

5. A dogmatical tone, a pragmatical pate.—Proverb
   

6. How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

7. It has been said of dogmatism, that it is only puppyism come to its full growth, and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.—SAMUEL SMILES
   

8. A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written as with sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neighbors do not see it in the same light. He is tempted to disdain his correspondents as men of low and dark understanding because they do not believe what he does.—ISAAC WATTS