“One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth; but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.” IfsWayGivingFirstsIdeasEndsWould BeEarthFormReligionGonePrejudiceAncientDeeperInsightFollyNew IdeasThreateningFoeBetter Life Book:The Greek Way Source: The Greek Way
“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
“Fear of the unknown... They are afraid of new ideas... They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on... "If something is new, I reject it immediately because it's frightening to me." What they do instead is just stay with the familiar. You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious.” IfsKnowsIdeasRealityBeautifulUniversePrejudiceFamiliarMysteriousRejectsFrighteningNew IdeasBeautiful ThingsLoadedFear Of The Unknown Author:Wayne Dyer
“It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.” YearsIdeasLyingOpinionHard WorkPrejudiceContemporaryNoiseThirtyNonsenseNew IdeasSheerInabilityThirty YearsNoisyMendel Author:Wilfred Trotter
“It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to become current, and the older men who ought to be capable of taking them in freely, will not do so through prejudice.” MenFirstsLongIdeasCasesHard WorkOughtCapableLong TimePrejudiceCurrentsNew IdeasBest WorkOlder Man Author:Francis Galton
“The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.” IdeasSpiritJusticeEnemyPlansDiversityPrejudiceSocial JusticeObsessionChiefsAlternativesNew IdeasInabilityIdeological Author:Lewis Mumford