Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

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

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?

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

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

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness.

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.

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.

It must be awful, being a homophobe.

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

Only if you were lucky to be born in the right class, the one Donald Trump was born in, then of course you have a beautiful view of the world. You find that everybody else is an imbecile, because he doesn't think like you, he doesn't dress like you, he doesn't have the same girl as you, etc. But I call that ignorance.

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same. Prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind.

I agree some people are biased, and I agree that they exist in a world of pure, sheer, raw hatred for anything they don't agree with, but I do believe they're also ignorant. I think they're dumb as skunks. I don't think they've been educated. They haven't the ability to hear and listen to common sense and understand what it is.