Mort Sahl Quotes

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.

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

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?

I just think that most of the people are very close minded.

The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.

There is no cure for narrowness of mind.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

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.

A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as it were, with sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neighbors do not see it in the same light. He is tempted to disdain his correspondents as men of low and dark understandings because they do not believe what he does.

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.

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

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

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?

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

One thing about liberals: It doesn't even occur to them that there is another side to an argument. They are so convinced of the righteousness of their own position that it doesn't dawn on them that a reasonable person might have a different viewpoint.

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

When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

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

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

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

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