“Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?” UnderstandingConnectionsPrejudiceBlindDiscernmentOwingImpartialityPartiality Author:Sir Fulke Greville
“There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen. In such vital matters blind reliance upon 'experts' and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people's domination. As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.” PeopleMenMeanImportantSelfMatterProblemTodayAbilityResponsibilityFateConditionsAcceptanceInvolvedDeterminationEconomicsPrejudiceIntelligentBlindInvestingSurrenderExpertsNeglectStakesElitesSelf DeterminationDominationRelianceAbandonmentPersonal ResponsibilityBirthrightIntelligent ManProgeny Author:Ludwig von Mises
“... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages.” FeelingsRealizingWonderStepsStruggleShareChildhoodStageAcceptancePrejudiceRelationBlindPossessionToleranceBitterSpotsSignificanceWombRace RelationsInfancyEmbryosBlind Spots Author:Sarah-Patton Boyle
“Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always faithful to the core values of science.” HumansProblemScienceReligionValuesScientistPrejudiceBlindCoreSpotsFaithfulMechanismCore ValuesBlind SpotsFerrets Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of ‘them’ & widen the circle of ‘us.” WayHeartBookIdeasChallengesHurtSeeingDangerousPrejudiceBlindCirclesSpotsNew WaysNew IdeasRight WayBlind SpotsBarricades Author:Libba Bray
“I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.” HeartIndividualRaceHabitMy HeartPrejudiceSlaveryBlindBottomPityUnfortunate Author:Booker T. Washington
“Groups become more extreme and entrenched in their beliefs and polarized from others when members only exchange information that reinforces their views and filter out all else or never learn of alternatives. Thus they narrow their options, and magnify each other's prejudices and misconceptions. This trend leads to blind spots in decision making and to extreme behavior, even terrorism.” BeliefDecisionViewsGroupsInformationMembersBehaviorPrejudiceBlindExtremesTerrorismSpotsAlternativesDecision MakingTrendsCollaborationMisconceptionFiltersBlind Spots Author:Cass Sunstein
“The main thing that I hate the most is ignorance, like the prejudice problems of America. I know it is worse in some other countries. But I wish I could borrow, like from Venezuela or Trinidad, the real love of color-blind people and bring it to America.” PeopleKnowsRealCountryProblemAmericaHateWishIgnoranceColorI HatePrejudiceBlindReal LoveOther CountriesVenezuelaBlind PeopleTrinidad Author:Michael Jackson
“I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with the blind worship of the ignoble past, with the idea that all the great and good are dead, that the living are totally depraved, that all pleasures are sins, that sighs and groans are alone pleasing to God, that thought is dangerous, that intellectual courage is a crime, that cowardice is a virtue, that a certain belief is necessary to secure salvation, that to carry a cross in this world will give us a palm in the next, and that we must allow some priest to be the pilot of our souls.” PeopleWantCountryPastBeliefFearSinPleasureCourageVirtueCrimeIgnoranceLivingWorshipPrejudiceBlindSalvationIntellectGoodThoughtGreatCowardiceDeadFreeSighDestroyCrossDepravedIgnoblePriestPilotPleasingGroan Book:Some Mistakes of Moses Source: Some Mistakes of Moses