Prejudice Quotes
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.Daniel Webste
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.Albert Einstein
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.Albert Einstein
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.William James
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 rocks.Charlotte Bronte
Prejudice is ignorance.Michael Jackson
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.Mark Twain
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.Laurence J. Pete
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few.Benjamin Disraeli
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.Dale Carnegie
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.Bernard M. Baruch
Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.Henry David Thoreau
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re - Arranging their prejudices.William James
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.William James
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
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.Mark Twain
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.William Fullbright
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.H. L. Mencken
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.Charles Caleb Colton
Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.Francis Quarles
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.Maya Angelou
Corporations have been enthroned.... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.Abraham Lincoln
The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.Tom Hanks
I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.Thomas Jefferson
Prejudice is the reasoning of fools.Author Unknown
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.Francis Jeffrey
It is never too late to give up your prejudices.Henry David Thoreau
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.Mark Twain
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.W. C. Fields
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.Frederick The Great
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.Francis Jeffrey
Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance.William Hazlitt
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.William Hazlitt
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow - Mindedness.Mark Twain
