#dice

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. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#directly #discovery #effectively #error #false

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now. ↗

— Ione Skye

#even #even now #just #many #now

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

#deviation #feared #hatred #looked #perversion

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#cowardice #responsibility #men

Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity. ↗

— Charles S. Weinblatt

#bigotry #equality #justice #philosophy #politics

He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#french #love #men #women #love

The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civility, to fish there as often as he chose while he continued in the neighbourhood, offering at the same time to supply him with fishing tackle, and pointing out those parts of the stream where there was usually most sport. Mrs. Gardiner, who was walking arm in arm with Elizabeth, gave her a look expressive of her wonder. Elizabeth said nothing, but it gratified her exceedingly; the compliment must be all for herself. Her astonishment, however, was extreme; and continually was she repeating, "Why is he so altered? From what can it proceed? It cannot be for me, it cannot be for my sake that his manners are thus softened. My reproofs at Hunsford could not work such a change as this. It is impossible that he should still love me. ↗

— Jane Austen

#change #civil #civility #jane-austen #love

Where the brave don't have the guts to question their immortal duty, cowards are rash about survival. ↗

— Bauvard

#cowardice #funny #humor #rashness #courage

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#constancy #courage #cowardice #steadfastness #truthfulness

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become. ↗

— Brooke Foss Westcott

#courage #cowardice #development #humanity #strength