The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.

Anti-Semitism is real in this country.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Homophobia is real in this country.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.