Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

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

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.

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?

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

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

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

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

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

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

The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

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.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

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

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

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

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

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

The man of frank and strong prejudices, far from being a political and social menace and an obstacle in the path of progress, is often a benign character and helpful citizen. The chance is far greater, furthermore, that he will be more creative than the man who can never come to more than a few gingerly held conclusions, or who thinks that all ideas should be received with equal hospitality. There is such a thing as being so broad you are flat.

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

Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.