dogmatist

Noun

Meaning

One who dogmatizes; one who speaks dogmatically; a bold and arrogant advancer of principles.

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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem." Robert Penn Warren

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist. Pierre Bayle

I admire anyone who's genuinely trying to achieve spiritual enlightenment and live a peaceful life. But religious dogma is a barrier to that. The last thing a dogmatist wants is for anyone to be enlightened, any more than a pharmaceutical company wants anybody cured. Pat Condell

He who is certain, or presumes to say he knows, is, whether he be mistaken or in the right, a dogmatist. William Fleming

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