Dylan Moran Quotes

One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.

The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven't left their 'hood, haven't left their area, their corner of the world. They don't read. They've never left their house.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds.

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

Denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Conservatism, I believe, is mainly due to want of imagination.

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess commitment to some special or constricting idea.

The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.

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.

I don’t care for ideological people. It’s like those people just want to stop thinking.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

New York is just as provincial as anyone else.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

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

I can be intolerant.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides. On all known subjects, ranging from aviation to xylophone-playing, I have fixed and invariable ideas. They have not changed since I was four or five.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.