Easier Quote by Roger Bacon Download Open image “It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.” — Roger Bacon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Easier House Men Prejudice Racism
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
You know that prejudice isn't logical, which is why it is so hard to overcome. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of. — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it. The fight against prejudice is an inevitable process. Man has been warring against his own lower nature ever since he found out he had one, and the battle against intolerance is part of the same old struggle between… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share
[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
It is not necessarily impossible for human beings to fly, but it so happens that God did not give them the knowledge of how… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
“Now there are four chief obstacles in grasping truth, which hinder every man, however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these sciences the… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
All science requires mathematics. [Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.] — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundation of knowledge… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one great whole, each doing its own work, not for itself… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
I think hair gel was invented to make it easier to identify assholes from a distance. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I'm truly, 100% guided by the characters and my Muse. If one of the characters suddenly decided to do something very different, I'd just… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
![“[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics, in so far as disposed through it we are able to reach certainty in other sciences and truth by the exclusion of error.” quote by Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d13/roger-bacon-15067_able_i-f-in-other-sciences-we-should-arrive-a_24209.jpg)
![“There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these sciences the gate and key is mathematics ... He who is ignorant of this [mathematics] cannot know the other sciences nor the affairs of this world.” quote by Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/555/roger-bacon-15067_affair_there-are-four-great-sciences-without-wh_575596.jpg)
![“All science requires mathematics. [Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.]” quote by Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/49e/roger-bacon-15067_editors_all-science-requires-mathematics-editors_697422.jpg)
