Believe Quote by Thomas Sowell

“Even the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, with their commitment to reason, failed to recognize the ways they stereotyped others.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming…

— Albert Einstein

People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who…

— Martin Walser

The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

— Alexander Hamilton

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

— Voltaire

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

— Anonymous

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

— Paul Johnson

“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.…

— Peter Lucas

I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.

— Phil Plait

“Fanatics clouded by self-justification.”

— Toba Beta

George Orwell once wrote that a false belief sooner or later collides with physical reality, usually on a battlefield.

— Al Gore

The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

— Alexander Hamilton