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Ignorance,... wow sounds like you are now in it... so you came out here... so welcome to my club ignored!
One day the world will be so badly wounded that those who try to repair it will only be called "close-minded.
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Sweeping generalizations are easy, but we are more alike than we are different. Our focus and interests may vary, or not, but to dismiss something as less relevant is a missed opportunity.
Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.
What is it in the human condition that tries to impose our own view onto others, without the ability, capacity, propensity, to receive somebody else's openly?
When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.
We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.
I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.
We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us.
When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.
Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
The narrowness of mind is the biggest handicap for innovation.
We live in a global community and we can't really remain isolated. I believe that when we hold a very narrow view about our attitudes of politics or culture or religion, then we cut out the opportunity to really engage with other points of view.
We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.
[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.
What ignorance there is in human minds.
Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
Ignorance; lack of knowledge or lack of curiosity.
To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.
Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.
Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.
Prejudice is a belief born from a shortcut to thinking
Avoid being narrow-minded; it's a fat world.
[W]hen we speak about people based on what we think, feel, or hope rather than on what we observe or experience, we deprive them of their humanity. We have replaced what they are, in all their fluid vitality, with our own crystallised ideas, opinions, and beliefs.
Prejudice comes from insecurity and its spiritually infantile need of belonging.
As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
To be bigoted & argue with others, is to subject one's essence of mind to the bitterness of mundane existence.
To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.
Those who are critical don't like being criticized, and those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.
Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Some people are so stiff-necked that they cannot think any other way than their own preconceived ideas.
The biases we hold against other groups have the ability to wreak havoc on our crosscultural interactions. Before we enter into such interactions, we must do the difficult work of addressing our biases and blind spots.
Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,
the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,
the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.
Ideology-the permission to hate.
The exclusion of those who fail to conform to unspoken normative requirements of the subject.
Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason ...
Prejudice is ignorance.
An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind.
There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever.
Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.
Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.
Moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong.
Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.
Ignorance and prejudice and fear go hand in hand
Although proselytizing is not in itself necessarily intolerant, it does close the open-ended door of pluralism
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?
There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.
Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.'
'Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay.
Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views.
In our democratic culture people often think it is threatening to judge another person's taste. Some are even offended by the suggestion that there is a difference between good and bad taste, or that it matters what you look at or read or listen to.
Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.
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.
To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being ... The open mind is the empty mind.
The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts.
Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.
Preconceived ideas can sometimes become barriers.
Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment ...
I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.
People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.
But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here.
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.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.
Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.
Many people who have progressively lowered their personal standards in an attempt to win social acceptance and life's comforts bitterly resent those of philosophical bent who refuse to compromise their spiritual ideals and who seek to better themselves.
Since people of necessity see things from their own perspective, much of what they say adds up to comforting ideas or outright propaganda for themselves and the groups to which they belong.
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
One can fall into the 'soft bigotry of low expectations.'
Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.
What, to many, passes for thought, is usually a compound of prejudice, desire, and whim.
Their reputation of being the spurners of all useless worldly trivia, prejudices and almost everything else in the world except their own interests.
It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.
No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.
People often hate what they cannot understand.
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.
If someone tries to follow the narrow way and does not set aside who they think they are and what they think they need, they cannot follow.
In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
We like to think that all people have hidden depths, but the fact is that a lot of people are shallow.
The vast majority don't have an opinion until they tune in to AM radio or read the papers. Then they become social critics.
Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.
Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
There are always individuals who pit their minds against the general modes of thought and who are arrogant enough to feel that they alone are right and that the many are wrong.
The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things.
Prejudice is the pinnacle of self injected ignorance. It enables poor choices to be pre-chosen.
People like to pigeonhole you.
In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.
People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.
Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
People quick to criticize others, but won't shine the light on themselves. You can't always judge a book by the outside appearance. You have to open it up and read in order to discover how precious it is.