Frank Peretti Quotes

Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

How prone we are to come to the consideration of every question with heads and hearts pre-occupied! How prone to shrink from any opinion, however reasonable, if it be opposed to any, however unreasonable, of our own! How disposed are we to judge, in anger, those who call upon us to think, and encourage us to enquire! To question our prejudices seems nothing less than sacrilege; to break the chains of our ignorance, nothing short of impiety!

A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

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.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads.

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

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.

We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.

How much further can your head get up your ass that you're actually judging someone as a person based on their sexuality before you even have a conversation with them?

Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.

The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

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

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

All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.

I just think that most of the people are very close minded.

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

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

Most men … can seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty — conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives

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.