Quotes About Close-mindedness

As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.

The barbarian looter and the religious zealot are alike in their penchant for destroying what they don't understand.

Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really....

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.

Prejudice is a belief born from a shortcut to thinking

I am a bigot. I'm what they called a 'multibigot.' . . . A unibigot is a racist. A multibigot is just a prick.

They usually had easy answers: send all the Mexicans home, put Hells Angels in the army, castrate the queers. The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions. Georgetown was only a few minutes

What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

So was his intolerance of dissenting opinions.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.

Don't confuse me with the facts—I've already made up my mind.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

It was useless arguing with people like her. They had stereotyped minds that ran along grooves of stock response and the commonplace.

Fundamentalists have their heads in the sand.

There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed.

When asked to name the attributes of someone who is particularly bad at predicting, Tetlock needed just one word. "Dogmatism," he says. That is, an unshakable belief they know something to be true even when they don't.

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.

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

Liberals instinctively cling to racism or bigotry or hate or narrow-mindedness whenever they can.

What does a bigot do when he meets someone who challenges his opinions? He doesn't give. He stays rigid. Doesn't even try to listen, just lashes out.