Prejudice Quotes
Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.Prejudice
Abrantes, Duchess
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
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Addison, Joseph
1672-1719 British Essayist Poet Statesman
All colors will agree in the dark.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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Bierce, Ambrose
1842-1914 American Author Editor Journalist The Devil's Dictionary
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
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Bronte, Charlotte
1816-1855 British Novelist
For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
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Burbank, Luther
1849-1926 American Horticulturist
It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.
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Chapman, John Jay
1862-1933 American Author
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
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Chesterfield, Lord
1694-1773 British Statesman Author
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
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Chisholm, Shirley
1924 American Social activist
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.
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Cooper, James F.
1789-1851 American Novelist
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
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Crisp, Quentin
1908 British Author
Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
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Durant, William J.
1885-1981 American Historian Essayist
I m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
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Eastwood, Clint
1930 American Actor Director Politician Composer Musician Producer
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
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Fields, W. C.
1879-1946 American Actor
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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Gide, Andre
1869-1951 French Author
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices
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Goldoni, Carlo
1707-1793 Italian Playwright
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
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Gourmont, Remy De
1858-1915 French Novelist Philosopher Poet Playwright
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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Hazlitt, William
1778-1830 British Essayist
The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
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Hazlitt, William
1778-1830 British Essayist
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
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Hazlitt, William
1778-1830 British Essayist
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
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Hazlitt, William
1778-1830 British Essayist
Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
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Hoffer, Eric
1902-1983 American Author Philosopher
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1809-1894 American Author Wit Poet
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
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Howells, William Dean
1837-1920 American Novelist Critic
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
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Huxley, Aldous
1894-1963 British Author
Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
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Johnson, Samuel
1709-1784 British Author
It s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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Kettering, Charles F.
1876-1958 American Engineer Inventor
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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Lichtenberg, Georg C.
1742-1799 German Physicist Satirist
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
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Lippmann, Walter
1889-1974 American Journalist
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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Mencken, H. L.
1880-1956 American Editor Author Critic Humorist
Reasoning against prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice.
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Mildmay
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices -- just recognize them.
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Murrow, Edward R.
1908-1965 American Journalist Broadcaster
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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Murrow, Edward R.
1908-1965 American Journalist Broadcaster
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
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Nixon, Richard M.
1913-1994 Thirty-seventh President of the USA
Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.
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Peter, Laurence J.
All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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Pope, Alexander
1688-1744 British Poet Critic Translator
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
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Proverb, Hebrew
Sayings of Hebrew Origin
Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races.
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.
1882-1945 Thirty-second President of the USA
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
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Rostand, Jean
1894-1977 French Biologist Writer
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Sade, Marquis De
1740-1814 French Author
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.
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Schopenhauer, Arthur
1788-1860 German Philosopher
The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for as he thinketh within himself, so is he. Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.
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Shaftesbury, Lord
1671-1713 British Statesman
We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.
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Sussman, Rosalyn
Prejudice is a great timesaver. It enables you to form opinions without bothering to get facts.
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Unknown, Source
Prejudice is being down on something you re not up on.
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Unknown, Source
I wander if there really is a brave man with a really good imagination? If hypocrisy was destructive to the environment the world would have ended a long, long time ago.
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Unknown, Source
Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life.
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Unknown, Source
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Voltaire
1694-1778 French Historian Writer
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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Washington, Booker T.
1856-1915 American Black Leader and Educator
One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
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Wilde, Oscar
1856-1900 British Author Wit