Larry Brilliant Quotes

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.

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.

When somebody's different, it's so easy to dismiss what people say because of what they look like. They really want to judge the book by its cover.

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

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

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

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Prejudices save time.

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

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

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

I think in our society we too often choose the people we associate with based on our own hasty judgments.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

The absolute basis of all prejudice is ignorance and generalization.

I wouldn’t say she is open-minded about her views of the Middle East so much as empty headed.

It must be awful, being a homophobe.

I've not been discriminated against, but I can see it happen. And not just race but gender and sexuality, too. It's stereotyping, lazy casting, which is an issue: that people can't see outside the box.