Favors Quote by Samuel Johnson

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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

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

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

— Anonymous

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

— Jonathan Swift

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

— Knute Rockne

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

— Anonymous

When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices,…

— Benjamin Franklin

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's…

— Mark Twain

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

— John Stuart Mill

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion

— Jonathan Swift