Prejudices Quotes

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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons;… — Mary Astell
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of… — Jane Austen
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. — George Bancroft
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so… — Bernard Baruch
I listen to music every day for study reasons, and I confess that I have very little knowledge of what is going on in the… — Andrea Bocelli
The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most… — Andrea Bocelli
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… — Charlotte Bronte
It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors… — Maya Angelou
The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing… — Norman Angell
The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of… — Oswald Chambers
One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some… — Charles Brent
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them. — Gordon Allport
We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice. — Anatole France
The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with… — Lewis Mumford
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out. — Mary Wollstonecraft
Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their… — Hans Eysenck
There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. — Samuel Johnson

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