Prejudice Quotes

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

H. L. Mencken

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

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 or the prejudices of the few.

Benjamin Disraeli, campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832

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

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

Hebrew Prove

Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.

Azel Backus

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Francis Jeffrey

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

Sydney Smith

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

William James

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

Tom Hanks

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

Albert Einstein

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Mark Twain

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

Edward R. Murrow, television broadcast, December 31, 1955

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940

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, The Moon and Sixpence

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

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

W. C. Fields

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re - Arranging their prejudices.

William James

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein

Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance.

William Hazlitt

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

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow - Mindedness.

Mark Twain