Motivational Quotes

Prejudice

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

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Prejudice

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

Voltaire

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Lillian Hellman

Prejudice is a great timesaver. It enables you to form opinions without bothering to get facts.

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.

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

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Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life.

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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

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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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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.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Murrow, Edward R.

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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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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.

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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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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

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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 most learned are often the most narrow minded.

Hazlitt, William

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Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

Hazlitt, William

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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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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

Pope, Alexander

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

Francis Jeffrey

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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.

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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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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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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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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Voltaire

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Kane O'Hara

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Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

Gourmont, Remy De

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The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for as he thinketh within himself, so is he. Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

W. C. Fields