Prejudices Quotes
395 quotes by 310 authors
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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
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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
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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 the reception of…
— Jane Austen
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
— Gordon Allport
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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
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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
— Anatole France
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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
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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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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
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There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
— Samuel Johnson
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