Prejudice Quotes - Page 11

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.

Consider data without prejudice.

I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.

The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.

Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.

When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.

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

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.

There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.

You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.