Sarah Fielding Quotes

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Some people choose not to believe the truth because it disagrees with what they fundamentally want.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

You will never succeed in getting at the truth if you know, ahead of time, what the truth ought to be

Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true

Education helps one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

The more educated we are, the less we are prepared to tolerate views contrary to our own.

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.

willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

Opinion is the death of knowledge.

In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men are capable of holding two offices. Take mankind in general, they are vicious, their passions may be operated upon. We have been taught to reprobate the danger of influence in the British government, without duly reflecting how far it was necessary to support a good government. We have taken up many ideas upon trust, and at last, pleased with our own opinions, establish them as undoubted truths.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

Anybody who pretends to be objective isn't realistic.

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.