Prejudice Quotes
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
We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.Albert Einstein
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
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions.Albert Einstein
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.Francis Jeffrey
Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.Duchess de Abrantes
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.Samuel Johnson
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.Sydney Smith
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
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.Mark Twain
Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow - Mindedness.Mark Twain
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
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
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
The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.Tom Hanks
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.Johann Kaspar Lavate
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re - Arranging their prejudices.William James
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.Henry David Thoreau
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Prejudice is the reasoning of fools.Author Unknown
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.Hebrew Prove
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.Joseph Conrad
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.William Hazlitt
Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance.William Hazlitt
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
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.Albert Einstein, (attributed)
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
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
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
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
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
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
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.Laurence J. Pete
