Our Prejudices Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
— Lord Chesterfield
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The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
— William Hazlitt
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Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences; probably there are…
— Naomi Weisstein
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Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.
— Mina Loy
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If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations,…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Karate is not about winning over others. It is about winning over one's self. Ultimately, the most challenging opponents we face reside from within -…
— David Walker
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
— Bear Grylls
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We can get the new world we want, if we want it enough to abandon our prejudices, every day, everywhere. We can build this world…
— Gwen Bristow
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Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.
— Oscar Wilde
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It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose…
— George Orwell
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
— John Lancaster Spalding
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We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.
— Sydney J. Harris
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I think the truth is, we are all racist, really, when it comes down to it. I think all of us have to check ourselves…
— Peter Hollingworth
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I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. Some one…
— Frank Knox
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Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.
— Frank Knox
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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
— Henry David Thoreau
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These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words…
— Walter Mosley
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Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is…
— Bertrand Russell
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Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things.…
— Holly Black
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
— Herman Melville
Who Wrote These Our Prejudices Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Our Prejudices Quotes as follows: