Motivational Quotes

Prejudice

Reasoning against prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice.

- Mildmay

Best Quotes about Prejudice

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

Bronte, Charlotte

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

Proverb, Hebrew

All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

Pope, Alexander

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

Sussman, Rosalyn

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

Washington, Booker T.

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.

Mencken, H. L.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

Hazlitt, William

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

Peter, Laurence J.

Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Huxley, Aldous

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If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

William James

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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

Voltaire

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I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

W. C. Fields

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It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.

Chapman, John Jay

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For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

Burbank, Luther

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I wander if there really is a brave man with a really good imagination? If hypocrisy was destructive to the environment the world would have ended a long, long time ago.

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Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

Hoffer, Eric

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A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Lillian Hellman

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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Gide, Andre

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There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

Samuel Johnson

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Voltaire

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Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Francis Jeffrey

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Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Rostand, Jean

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The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

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I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Eastwood, Clint

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Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.

William Hazlitt

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Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

Sydney Smith

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It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on.

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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices -- just recognize them.

Murrow, Edward R.

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Reasoning against prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice.

Mildmay

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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Henry David Thoreau

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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

Crisp, Quentin

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The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

Hazlitt, William

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Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

Howells, William Dean

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If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.

George Aiken

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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

Sade, Marquis De

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One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

Wilde, Oscar

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I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

Fields, W. C.

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America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

Cooper, James F.

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When the judgement's weak, The prejudice is strong.

Kane O'Hara

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Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

Johnson, Samuel

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Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

Durant, William J.