Fondness Quote by Isaac Watts

The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices.

— Isaac Watts

We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we…

— David Ansen

“Prejudice comes from insecurity and its spiritually infantile need of belonging.”

— Bryant McGill

“The Tragedy of the human condition is that the very things that make us interesting and culturally important and progressively brilliant are our differences;…

— Bryce Courtenay

The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“But to minds strongly marked by the positive and negative qualities that create severity,— strength of will, conscious rectitude of purpose, narrowness of imagination…

— George Eliot

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

— Plutarch

Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we agonize about…

— Carl Sagan

Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and…

— Pearl S. Buck

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while…

— Wendell Willkie

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

— Karen Armstrong

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

— Christina Baldwin