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395 Prejudices quotes by 298 unique authors
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Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and…
— Jennifer Stone
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It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern times. It is…
— Harry S. Truman
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Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander…
— Kenny Smith
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Most of us have no idea what we can do because we are totally conditioned by the past. Our memories, beliefs, assumptions, prejudices, and stresses…
— Deepak Chopra
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Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till…
— Samuel Johnson
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He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.
— Gore Vidal
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The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice)... the debauching of agriculture to a gross…
— Russell Kirk
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It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.
— Thomas Sowell
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What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom…
— Napoleon Hill
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When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling…
— Dale Carnegie
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Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life…
— Annie Proulx
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Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
— Jimmy Carter
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It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves…
— Peter Singer
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When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous.
— Paulo Coelho
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As you go forth and share our core beliefs and the fruits of our doctrines, misperceptions will dissolve, prejudices will diminish, and people will come…
— Quentin L. Cook
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Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman's garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster than this. The…
— Susan B. Anthony
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Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like…
— H.G. Wells
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Since people, in a competitive or any other society, are by no means always just to each other, some regulation by the state in its…
— Felix Morley
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Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.
— Albert Einstein
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I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow…
— Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in…
— Albert Einstein
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