Richard M. Weaver Quotes

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

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

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

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.

My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

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

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show the darkness but to put out our own eyes.

When we judge, we are always in a psychic space which is circular.

Some people assume I'm a spoilt trust fund kid who's never had to work for anything, while others think the best of me because of the good experience they had with my grandfather. It's difficult to digest the fact that they may never see me for who I am.

I am living in this world, and if this world already has a certain prejudice of me and an idea of me, then it's really hard for me to go through it.

If you judge me only by my profession, you don't know me at all. Those people who do that? They'll never know me.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

You're never going to get beyond other people's preconceptions of what you are and what you're about.

I've learned that you shouldn't have preconceived notions about anybody.

Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason.

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.

To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.

If I could get their attention long enough, I felt they would see beneath the boobs and find the heart, and that they would see beneath the wig and find the brains. I think one big part of whatever appeal I possess is the fact that I look totally one way and that I am totally another. I look artificial, but I'm not.

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette.

I'm not really that interested in pandering to an audience of people that are going to judge me before they hear me. If they hear it and don't like it, that's totally fine.