Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

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

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.

Those who believe that they have absolute truth and the only moral system are destructive both to themselves and to those whom they try to convert.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority.

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

The trouble with radicals is that they read only radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything.

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.

Most men indeed as well as most sects in Religion, think themselves in possession of all truth, and that where ever others differ from them it is so far error.

My understanding of religion and science is that they're both arrogant schools of thought, and whether they acknowledge it or not they continually broadcast the idea that they have the world figured out. And what they don't know, they have a theory for which is probably correct. It feels like that shrinks the world, rather than expands it.

People can be in a prison of their own mind. [There are] people who don't have their hearts open to other people's ideas, and can't listen to other people's ideas without feeling like they're being slapped in the face. Those people are more in a prison.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

But of all Nonsense, Religious Nonsense is the most nonsensical; so enough, & more than enough of it - Only, by the bye, will you, or can you tell me, my dear Cunningham, why a religioso turn of mind has always a tendency to narrow and illiberalise the heart?

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.

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

There is nothing more dangerous than a person with only one right answer.

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.

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.

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

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.

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

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.