Prejudices Quotes · Page 8

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

— Barbara Tuchman

“Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.

— Anonymous

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment

— Albert Einstein

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

— Anonymous

“We do not need to erase our assumptions, prejudices, or biases. We must simply learn to expand our awareness beyond them.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be…

— Andre Maurois

The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

— Alexander Hamilton

“The worst thing about social conditioning is that it makes an individual of that society genuinely believe that he or she is…

— Abhijit Naskar

“The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual…

— Bertrand Russell

When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to…

— Anthony Trollope

We are - each and every one of us - unlearning misogyny. It's going to take some time. But be aware and…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“Science is about recognizing patterns. [...] Everything depends on the ground rules of the observer: if someone refuses to look at obvious…

— Christopher Knight & Alan Butler

For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all…

— Rod Serling

We live in a screen age, and to say to a kid, ‘I’d love for you to look at a book but…

— Marc Prensky

“In order to discover truth it is necessary to coldly dissect and examine all of our prejudices and inherent biases to ensure…

— Stephen McAndrew

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

— Frank Knox

“What's changed, that a stone eater no longer seems alien to you? Only superficial things about him. Everything about you.”

— N.K. Jemisin

Those who have no prejudices in themselves do not reject people, and therefore people do not reject them.

— Suzuki Shosan

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing…

— James F. Cooper

Travel should rub off Local Prejudices and provide an enlarged and impartial view of Men and Things.

— Josiah Tucker

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

— Rod Serling

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

— Lydia M. Child

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

— Victor Hugo

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Become a human and call upon the humans in others. And in time the world shall become a real abode of peace.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Most people don’t really want the truth. They’re just looking for answers that confirm their prejudices.”

— Jim Wilhelmsen

When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

— Celia Green

One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go.

— Cher

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

— John Mason Brown

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.”

— Neil Gaiman

“And until we can see each other as equals, justice is never going to be even-handed. It will remain nothing more than…

— John Grisham

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

— Baron de Montesquieu

The problem is that many who reject Marx do not read him, or read him only by bringing prejudices to their reading…

— Allen W. Wood

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

— Gordon Allport

Mistakes and prejudices are as interesting as anything else. They reveal a lot about the mind set and culture of the time…

— Sean Michael Wilson