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Prejudice Quotes by William Hazlitt
- Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them…
- Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
- We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse…
- The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
- 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…
- Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.
- The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices,…
- However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced…
- Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such…
- Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
- Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
- There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
- The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
- The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
- Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
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- There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to… — Jane Austen
- The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully… — George Bancroft
- Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions,… — Bernard Baruch
- I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias. — Tony Benn
- FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day… — Felix Adler
- Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. — Ambrose Bierce
- I listen to music every day for study reasons, and I confess that I have very little knowledge of what is going… — Andrea Bocelli
- The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that… — Andrea Bocelli