Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.

I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

The great obstacle to progress is prejudice

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

I wouldn’t say she is open-minded about her views of the Middle East so much as empty headed.

That is just the way it is with some people. They will get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

I feel like people are so closed-minded at times.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak