We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
Maya AngelouTags: prejudice
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
Emma GoldmanTags: prejudice independent-thought bigotry
Are you the new person drawn toward me?
To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose;
Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?
Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction?
Do you think I am trusty and faithful?
Do you see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me?
Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?
Tags: infatuation prejudice preconceptions
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
Marcus AureliusTags: truth prejudice open-mindedness
[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or his father's side]
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man—a man of restless and versatile intellect—who … plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.
Tags: science inspirational purpose nature prejudice evolution scientific question ridicule discussion rhetoric ape aimless obstruction preference religious-prejudice
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.
Edward R. MurrowTags: life experience prejudice
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
John ArbuthnotTags: science knowledge mind prejudice superstition math credulity mathematics vigour
I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.
Thurgood MarshallPeople almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
Blaise PascalTags: prejudice subjectivity evidence beliefs proof persuasion attractivenessiveness
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Bertrand RussellTags: science men women prejudice aristotle misconceptions
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