Motivational Quotes

Prejudice

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Prejudice

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

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

W. C. Fields

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

Burbank, Luther

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

William James

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

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

Pope, Alexander

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

Lillian Hellman

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

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

Hazlitt, William

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

Gide, Andre

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Francis Jeffrey

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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

Voltaire

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Kane O'Hara

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Voltaire

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

Howells, William Dean