Culture Quote by Anatole France

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

— Edmund Burke

Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

— Sydney Smith

The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's…

— Mark Twain

No man can see his own prejudices.

— Frances Wright

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

— Anonymous

I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.

— Leon Botstein

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

— William Hazlitt

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Prejudice is merely a consecration of stupidity.”

— Maurizio de Giovanni