Lord Acton Quotes

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.

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?

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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

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

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

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

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

The sin of certainty leaves no room for the rest of us.

Obstinacy and heat of opinion are the surest proof of stupidity.

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

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 feel like people are so closed-minded at times.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

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

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.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.