Chris Rock Quotes

How prone we are to come to the consideration of every question with heads and hearts pre-occupied! How prone to shrink from any opinion, however reasonable, if it be opposed to any, however unreasonable, of our own! How disposed are we to judge, in anger, those who call upon us to think, and encourage us to enquire! To question our prejudices seems nothing less than sacrilege; to break the chains of our ignorance, nothing short of impiety!

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show the darkness but to put out our own eyes.

Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.

The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.

Judging people you don't know for things you don't understand is just really stupid.

The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.

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.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

How much further can your head get up your ass that you're actually judging someone as a person based on their sexuality before you even have a conversation with them?

One of the main faults of a fool is that he never changes his mind.

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?

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.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.