Top 100 Quotes About Prejudices
#1. Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.
Mario Monti
#2. The Tragedy of the human condition is that the very things that make us interesting and culturally important and progressively brilliant are our differences; and these are also the principle reasons for our prejudices
Bryce Courtenay
#3. Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.
William Feather
#4. For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.
Eva Figes
#5. We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
Karen Armstrong
#6. Science is about recognizing patterns. [ ... ] Everything depends on the ground rules of the observer: if someone refuses to look at obvious patterns because they consider a pattern should not be there, then they will see nothing but the reflection of their own prejudices.
Christopher Knight
#7. I advance it therefore [...] that the blacks [...] are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.
Thomas Jefferson
#8. I don't have prejudices. I'm against taboos. But of course there are some things I'll never touch - because as a mom, there are things one doesn't want their children to be around.
Karl Lagerfeld
#9. The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the West.
Erwin Schrodinger
#10. To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices.
Rex Stout
#11. In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.
Michael Crichton
#12. Is the marketing effort designed to convey the candidate's convictions, or are the convictions expressed by the candidate the reflections of a "big data" research effort into individuals' likely preferences and prejudices?
Henry Kissinger
#13. The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society and on intimate terms with the people they slander.
Oscar Wilde
#15. Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.
Henry Louis Gates
#16. Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.
Ernest Dimnet
#17. Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.
James Truslow Adams
#18. Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.
Charles Bukowski
#19. Many people give the appearance of progress by shedding the prejudices and irrational postulates of one generation only to acquire those of the next.
T. S. Eliot
#21. The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.
Alexander Hamilton
#22. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter
#23. Everything was politics, and politics was ideology, and ideology came down to personal prejudices rather than the quest for truth.
Tom Clancy
#24. Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.
John Mason Brown
#25. The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices.
Isaac Watts
#26. I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South.
Clarice Taylor
#27. Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Voltaire
#28. Nowledge which ... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious and luminous reality. Just how it was achieved remains subject to debate.
Ernest Gellner
#29. Our prejudices are like physical infirmities - we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
John Lancaster Spalding
#30. If you're searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you'll be able to see the real truth.
CLAMP
#31. All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.
Anna Julia Cooper
#32. I'm Irish yet I don't drink as I refuse to be a stereotype and live down to the expectations of others.
Stewart Stafford
#33. The use of reason is to justify the obscure desires that move our conduct, impulses, passions, prejudices and follies, and also our fears.
Joseph Conrad
#34. The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
William Hazlitt
#35. I thought about how many preconcieved prejudices would crumble when i trotted right along for 26 miles.
Bobbi Gibb
#36. Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
W. Somerset Maugham
#37. There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others-
Kate Chopin
#38. Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
Bill Vaughan
#39. Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
Baron De Montesquieu
#40. Justice has often been forged from fires of indignities and prejudices suffered. Our triumphs that celebrate the freedom of choice are hallowed. We have arrived upon another moment in history when 'We the People' becomes more inclusive, and our freedom more perfect.
Arenda L. Wright Allen
#41. Religious institutions perpetuate a moral master-servant relationship. They create an arena which attracts prideful human power-seekers with all of their nearsighted prejudices!
Frank Herbert
#42. The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.
Andrea Bocelli
#43. He felt the slowly healing polarization of his mind, matching his to hers, the alignment of all his prejudices and conceits to the lodestone of the image she represented for him.
Iain M. Banks
#44. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
Luther Burbank
#45. All the lies, all the ways we have of trying to make life simple for ourselves by putting people into boxes marked black, white, good, bad, when all of us are victims of our own prejudices.
Julia Gregson
#46. I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Sydney Smith
#47. Last night I got up to pin a star under my top bunk. It stands for Matthew, who's a planet all to himself. In order to get to know that planet you have to do away with rules and prejudices and language, and throw yourself at it without being frightened of traveling through space.
Kochka
#48. And he had been very badly treated by a girl too. He had thought her a really civilised and adult personality, and then she had unexpectedly revealed that she was a mass of bourgeois prejudices and monogamic instincts.
C.S. Lewis
#49. You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.
Mark Twain
#50. But the misfortune of speaking with bitterness is a most natural consequence of the prejudices I had been encouraging. There
Jane Austen
#51. Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#52. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
Albert Einstein
#53. What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.
Napoleon Hill
#54. Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.
Ron Fournier
#55. The late Dr. Harry Ironside once said, "Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions." To be sure, we must deplore wickedness, evil, and wrongdoing, but our commendable intolerance of sin too often develops into a deplorable intolerance of sinners. Jesus hates sin but loves the sinner.
Billy Graham
#56. Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
Lord Chesterfield
#57. That we not become prejudiced against those are prejudiced, or whose prejudices. May no be our own.
Timothy B. Tyson
#58. One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
H.L. Mencken
#59. History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
Bill Watterson
#60. In order to discover truth it is necessary to coldly dissect and examine all of our prejudices and inherent biases to ensure we receive unbiased answers. This takes effort. It is always easier to simply accept the ideas presented to us than to question the status quo.
Stephen McAndrew
#61. The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Jonathan Swift
#62. I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
Fidel Castro
#63. Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.
Deepak Chopra
#64. New ideas are reasonable if they can be fitted into an already familiar scheme, unreasonable if they cannot be made to fit. Our intellectual prejudices determine the channels along which our reason shall flow.
Aldous Huxley
#65. If some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.
Josephine Lawrence
#66. Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past
Prentice Mulford
#67. The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.
Aleister Crowley
#68. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.
Oscar Wilde
#69. I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
Charles Lamb
#70. When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the difference. The reward will go to those who dared to step outside the safety of their privacy in order to expose and rout the prevailing prejudices.
John Shelby Spong
#71. What am I that I am called upon to have prejudices concerning the universe?
James Branch Cabell
#72. Conversion may mean changing one's mind, overcoming prejudices, looking at things differently. Someone has remarked that conversatio means never having to say, 'But we've always done it this way.
Benet Tvedten
#73. A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer.
Bill Jay
#74. We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.
T. S. Eliot
#75. When you're a kid, you're not as corrupted by the world at large. You're not corrupted by prejudices. You're much more open-minded. Much more interested in the world around you. 'Sweet Tooth' is about the world returning to that kind of place.
Jeff Lemire
#76. I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.
Leon Botstein
#77. Author discussed what he calls the "narrative fallacy." This refers to our "limited ability" to look at a sequence of facts "without weaving an explanation into them.
Nicholas Nassim Taleb
#78. See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
Herman Melville
#79. Their reputation of being the spurners of all useless worldly trivia, prejudices and almost everything else in the world except their own interests.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#80. A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
Charles Kettering
#81. Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.
Dorothea Brande
#82. If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.
Anna Deavere Smith
#83. I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.
Emily Saliers
#84. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
Oscar Wilde
#85. It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.
Ione Skye
#86. Prejudices are comforting: everyone should make sure to cultivate at least three.
Sophie Hannah
#87. Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous.
Hans Eysenck
#88. It will be difficult if people can't get past their prejudices; I don't mean Black and White; I mean people automatically assume because a film has a predominantly Black cast, that it is a particular quality of film.
Romany Malco
#89. People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
Carly Fiorina
#90. When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous.
Paulo Coelho
#91. There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
Francis Jeffrey
#92. Yet, advice on what we can do is usually futile - for we will do nothing except applaud the speaker, accept those ideas of his we already agree with, and reject those ideas that run counter to our prejudices.
Sydney J. Harris
#93. No mathematician of equal stature has risen from our generation ... Hilbert was singularly free from national and racial prejudices; in all public questions, be they political, social or spiritual, he stood forever on the side of freedom.
Hermann Weyl
#94. Most people never know more than a surface layer of each other's personalities. They take the bolder characteristics of a first impression at face value because they're lazy, and they carry those expectations and prejudices throughout the entire relationship.
Max Monroe
#95. But in terms of "psychological" time, most of us are still living in centuries past, stirred by ancient grudges, controlled by obsolete prejudices, driven by buried fears.
Sydney J. Harris
#96. We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.
Sydney J. Harris
#97. The love of God pays no attention to my prejudices caused by my natural individuality.
Oswald Chambers
#98. 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 such opinions.
Albert Einstein
#99. We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction,
Charles Lindbergh
#100. It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.
Thomas Sowell
