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395 Prejudices quotes by 298 unique authors
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The Bible is not a book of magic. It's a book of mystery. You can't just quote verses that support your prejudices or guarantee your…
— Mel White
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
— Gordon W. Allport
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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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Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation, . . .…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
— Carlo Goldoni
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Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.
— Ernest Dimnet
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Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
— Buchi Emecheta
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men... succeeds nevertheless…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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American Psalms challenges Christian patriots to put aside personal agendas, prejudices and partisanship, and pray for our leaders as God commands.
— Mike Huckabee
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The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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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In attacking the young, the liberal, and the black, Daley was in the mainstream of America's mass prejudices. The Democratic party may have suffered by…
— Mike Royko
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The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its…
— Maria Montessori
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A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the…
— Maria Montessori
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Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order…
— Maria Montessori
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the…
— Oscar Wilde
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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,…
— William Hazlitt
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But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices; cultivates…
— Adam Weishaupt
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In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We…
— Michael Crichton
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Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
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