Cold Quote by Vance Havner

At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.

— Pema Chodron

There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people…

— Martin Gardner

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

— Sigmund Freud

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

— Nora Ephron

A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful. In the area involving religious truths, it can be disastrous.

— Kathryn Kuhlman

The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.

— Napoleon Hill

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions,…

— Helen Thompson Woolley

The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking…

— Parker J. Palmer

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most…

— George Washington

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

— Baron de Montesquieu

... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a…

— Frederick William Robertson