Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice dies hard. Adlai Stevenson About change, Ignorance, Prejudice, Stubbornness You May Also Like It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. By M. Scott Peck About change, Obstacles, Problems, Success Our nation’s long neglect of minorities whose skin is dark is perhaps only a little worse than our neglect of another minority whose hair is white. By Lyndon B. Johnson Neglect, Old age, Prejudice, Racism It’s only big enough people who can afford, occasionally, to be untrammeled by ordinary prejudice. By Han Suyin Prejudice To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. By Robert Louis Stevenson About change, Education, Learning, Wise Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity. By Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Ignorance, Stubbornness, Stupidity … pride of race is the antidote to prejudice. By Arthur Alfonso Schomburg Prejudice You May Also Like from Adlai Stevenson To the victor belong the toils. By Adlai Stevenson Success, Victory Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them. By Adlai Stevenson Giving back There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody. By Adlai Stevenson Money Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public. By Adlai Stevenson Ethics, Evil, Manipulation, Morality Flattery is all right—if you don’t inhale. By Adlai Stevenson Compliment, Funny, Praise If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a tenfoot chain. By Adlai Stevenson Freedom, Knowledge
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. By M. Scott Peck About change, Obstacles, Problems, Success
Our nation’s long neglect of minorities whose skin is dark is perhaps only a little worse than our neglect of another minority whose hair is white. By Lyndon B. Johnson Neglect, Old age, Prejudice, Racism
It’s only big enough people who can afford, occasionally, to be untrammeled by ordinary prejudice. By Han Suyin Prejudice
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. By Robert Louis Stevenson About change, Education, Learning, Wise
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity. By Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Ignorance, Stubbornness, Stupidity
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody. By Adlai Stevenson Money
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public. By Adlai Stevenson Ethics, Evil, Manipulation, Morality
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a tenfoot chain. By Adlai Stevenson Freedom, Knowledge
