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

Ambrose Bierce

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All colors will agree in the dark.

Francis Bacon

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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

Alexander Pope

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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.

James Fenimore Cooper

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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.

Will Durant

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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

W. C. Fields

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

Richard Nixon

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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.

John Jay Chapman

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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.

Quentin Crisp

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

Charles Kettering

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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.

Remy de Gourmont

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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.

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.

Oscar Wilde

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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.

H. L. Mencken

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Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Aldous Huxley

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Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

Earl of Chesterfield

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19

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

Prejudice
20

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

Joseph Addison

Prejudice
21

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

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

Prejudice
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

William Hazlitt

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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Marquis de Sade

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

Samuel Johnson

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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.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Voltaire

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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.

Charlotte Brontë

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

Eric Hoffer

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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.

Jean Rostand

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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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Prejudice
32

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.

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The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

William Hazlitt

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The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

Walter Lippmann

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

William Hazlitt

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

André Gide

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Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

Laurence J. Peter

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38

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

Booker T. Washington

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

All colors will agree in the dark.

All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

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.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

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

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

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

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

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

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

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.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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.

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

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.

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.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

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

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

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

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