Prejudice Quotes - Page 22

I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.

Objectivism is basically the same thing as faith-based science or for that matter faith-based foreign policy, where you start out with the assumption "We are good, they are evil," or "We know what is good and right and we know what is wrong," so all questions are settled in advance by a set of ideological prejudices.

It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime.

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

What I will say to people is what you require are rules and not prejudices.

Prejudice will fall in a combat with interest.

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified.

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not a prejudice that governed science from the beginning, but a lesson that has been learned through centuries of experience in the study of nature.

Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.

Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women.

You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.

A Lesbian who consents to guilt for her sexual preference is her own worst oppressor. She accepts and internalizes prejudices and uses them against herself.

I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%. There’s no way I can control the story you tell yourself from my book. Your own experiences, preferences, prejudices, mood at the moment, current events in your life, needs and wants influence how you read my every word.

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

An aspect of 'post-modern' approach to history is to include the mistakes and the prejudices of the era, without modernizing them or 'correcting' them according to our modern ideals.

God has no forms, no limbs, no qualities, no preferences, no prejudices.

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

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.

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