Hans Eysenck Quotes

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

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.

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

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

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

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

Admiration is the basis of ignorance.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

Infallibility and invincible ignorance are the same thing.

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same. Prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind.

The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.

Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.

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