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.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

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

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.

Truth doesn't pay homage to creeds. Creeds must adjust themselves to be compatible with the truth.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

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.

It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.

How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.

No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the opposition, he is invincible. We have to die to find out whether he is right.

Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

There are two kinds of people in the world: the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Bigot, n. One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.