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Prejudices Quotes by Albert Einstein
- Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
- Modern education is competitive, nationalistic and separative. It has trained the child to regard material values as of major importance, to believe that his nation…
- Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.
- 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…
- I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter,…
- Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming…
- Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is…
- Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional…
- Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices…
- Not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
- Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.
- Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment
More Prejudices Quotes
- 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… — Mary Astell
- There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to… — Jane Austen
- He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in… — Oscar Wilde
- Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill… — Joseph Story
- There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them. — Steve Coogan
- An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man… — Bertrand Russell
- The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that… — Andrea Bocelli