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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

Samuel Johnson
Religion, Atheism, Prejudice

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

Samuel Johnson
Prejudice, Facts, Opinion

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

Samuel Johnson
Errors, Age, Prejudice
Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.183

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.

Samuel Johnson
Prejudice, World, Favour
Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.119

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till wishes for a particular qualification are improved to hopes of attainment, and hopes of attainment to belief of possession.

Samuel Johnson
Men, Wish, Prejudice
Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.323

To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.

Samuel Johnson
Prejudice, Weak, Has Beens
Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent persons”, p.225

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

Samuel Johnson
Men, Self, Prejudice
Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.143

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