Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.
– Theodore Dalrymple
Related Quotes:
- There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy. – Theodore Dalrymple
- [T]he scale of a man’s evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to them. – Theodore Dalrymple
- Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings. – Theodore Dalrymple
- The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it. – Theodore Dalrymple
- Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt. – Theodore Roosevelt
- These,- he said gravely, -œare unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant. – Aldous Huxley
- Knowing your feelings won’t change the facts, but knowing the facts can change your feelings. – Marlene Chism
- Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings. – Anthony Liccione
- Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. – Clarence Day Jr
- Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods. – Chuck Todd
- Justice can be achieved only if one has the pertinent facts, and excusing evil requires that those facts be obscured; justice is thus precluded. – Mike Klepper
- You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts. – Steven Levy
- Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable… – Nicholas Sparks
- Our world’s future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize. – Jay Samit
- I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity – Brian Kiteley
- And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the one who tells them. – Karen Abbott
- Always prefer to be like Gold, so ductile as willing to be pulled to the limits, so malleable as the more you get beaten the more you get decorative. – Sandeep Sahajpal
- A woman’s heart and a woman’s dreams are malleable and can change at any moment. It is the essence of being a woman. – Chloe Thurlow
- I mean you ACRES of harm,’ Dalrymple growled. ‘Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are through. – Derek Landy
- We cannot let our hurts, fears, and prejudices get in the way of God’s calling for our lives. – Teresa Schultz
- The love I see in this world is hate and prejudices. – Jonathan Page Acabo
- Everybody means by an open mind, a mind which contains their prejudices but not somebody else’s. – John Oulton Wisdom
- You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. – Robert A Heinlein
- Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn? – Susan B Anthony Collection
- The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits. – Rajeev Kurapati
- The true call of liberation of women is not in taking off their clothes, but taking off their prejudices. – Shannon L Alder
- We’ve learned it’s better to work together to create more possibilities for all, rather than cling to past prejudices. – Lisa Carlisle
- Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices. – Oscar Wilde
- I Grew Up In A Family With No Prejudices. My Father Always Believed There Were Good And Bad In Every Ethnic Background, And Nationality. – Chris Mentillo
- Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices–just recognize them. – Edward R Murrow
- To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices. – Rex Stout
- Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government. – Barbara W Tuchman
- It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices. – Roger Bacon
- I’m free of all prejudices. I hate all people equally. – WC Fields
- These passive prejudices were not necessarily from a place of ugly, but they certainly weren’t from a place of respect. – Trae Crowder
- Comedy should provoke! It should blast through prejudices, challenge preconceptions; comedy should always leave you different than when it found you. – Duckman Jason Alexander
- Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds. – Neil Gaiman
- Prejudices, mysticism, bigotry these things only distort religion, like they have actually done to the most religions of the world. – Abhijit Naskar
- There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69) – Edward de Bono
- The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered. – Theodore Roosevelt