Quote: A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Author: Joseph Addison 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman
Quote: Bigot, one who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Author: Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer
Quote: Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin 1814-1880, American Author, Clergyman
Quote: We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author
Quote: Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.
Author: E. M. Cioran 1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher
Quote: Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: There is no bigotry like that of ''free thought'' run to seed.
Author: Horace Greeley 1811-1872, American Newspaper Editor
Quote: Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: Bigotry is the sacred disease.
Author: Heraclitus BC 535-475, Greek Philosopher
Quote: We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
Quote: When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
Quote: You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.
Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith 1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist