Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

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?

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

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

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

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

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

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 feel like people are so closed-minded at times.

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

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

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

How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

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

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

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

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.

Anything that I don't understand or can't do is stupid.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.