“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.”
“When Peter sets his mind to a thing," Tanngnost thought, "far be it from reason to stop him.”
“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”
“Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.{Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams, November 13 1816}”
“The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.”
“But a lover is dogmatic. To him the world shall be beautiful and pure. When it is not, he ignores it.”