Age Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its…

— Thomas Paine

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…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment…

— Baron d'Holbach

The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even…

— H. L. Mencken

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and…

— Charles Dickens

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

— Gordon W. Allport

Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong…

— Carl Jung

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion…

— Thomas Paine

Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will…

— Jonathan Swift