Dice Quotes - Page 2

Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.

You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

Optimism is cowardice.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

The die has been cast.

The air is the only place free from prejudices.

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.

But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where they are the most accommodating, least rigid, least severe, most vague, and ready to come to easy terms with the prejudices and weaknesses of the modern world. Let everyone have the courage to look deeply into himself and to see what it is that he really wants.