Louis Dudek Quotes

A lot of people are lazy when it comes to making up their own mind about something, you know? If you're labelled one way then they think thats how you are. It takes too much time to really look into things.

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

In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything.

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

Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

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!

There is so much closed-mindedness, there is so much closed-off thought, there is so much bigotry and prejudice within knowledge that it, I think, is stunting the actual intelligence growth of our population. Not our capabilities but our actual intelligence growth because all of the stigma that's attached to people that don't have formal educations as opposed to those who do. But the people that have formal educations have been programmed and indoctrinated in many cases, not in all the disciplines.

Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.

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

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

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

There is no cure for narrowness of mind.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

I'm not really opposed to people changing their minds. I'm much more concerned with people who never change their minds no matter what new information is available.

It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness with which they fit into his general conceptions, into the picture of the world which he regards as modern or advanced.

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

To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

I agree some people are biased, and I agree that they exist in a world of pure, sheer, raw hatred for anything they don't agree with, but I do believe they're also ignorant. I think they're dumb as skunks. I don't think they've been educated. They haven't the ability to hear and listen to common sense and understand what it is.