Doug Stanhope Quotes

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

You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

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

… when we know a thing we have only scorn for other people who don’t happen to know it.

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

What's the use? The people are too stupid. They do not understand.

We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.

It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.

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.

People are just so stupid.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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

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.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.

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

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

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

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.