Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

An open mind but not an empty head.

Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force.

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

I love to doubt as well as know.

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Opinions should not be allowed to become conclusions

You will never succeed in getting at the truth if you know, ahead of time, what the truth ought to be

Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.