Contemporary Quote by Wilfred Trotter

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

— Christian Wiman

It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time…

— Francis Galton

Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past

— Prentice Mulford

“attitudes were increasingly rejected; and now, in the twenty-first century, much of the energy and creative thinking in our culture operates off postmodern assumptions.”

— Heath White

“Prejudices are holes in people's general knowledge, filled with negative nonsense.”

— M.Z.Riffi

“Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence,…

— Bertrand Russell

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

— Virginia Woolf

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

“There seems to be such a thing as the generically prejudiced mind. Studies”

— Richard Hofstadter

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

As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Sullen silence was taken for rapt attention, and gave him greater room to talk; sharp answers were received as smart sallies of girlish vivacity,…

— Anne Brontë