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Intolerance

Quotations from the Wayside

Prejudice delivers instant opinions without bothering with all those facts.
ANONYMOUS

He who never changes his mind never corrects his errors.
ANONYMOUS

Prejudice is being down on what you are not up on.
MARGARET T. APPLEGARTH

If you could make all men think alike, it would be very much as if no man thought at all.
PHILLIP BROOKS

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.
ÉMILE-AUGUSTE CHARTIER

A closed mind is like a closed book, just a block of wood.
CHINESE PROVERB

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.
MOHANDAS K. GANDHI

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
WILLIAM HAZLITT

Drawing boundaries is the preoccupation of minds incapable of building bridges.
BRIAN HOCKING

They must first judge themselves that presume to censure others.
WILLIAM PENN

Zeal is very blind when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
P. QUESNEL

Fear is at the bottom of all intolerance.
HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON

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