A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
William Hazlitt
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 F. Cooper
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
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
Denis Diderot
Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.
Lord Jeffrey
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
Adam Weishaupt
But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.
Mercy Otis Warren
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Martin Henry Fischer
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Edward R. Murrow
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
For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
Luther Burbank
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Aldous Huxley
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
Carlo Goldoni
I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.
W. C. Fields
I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.
Isambard K. Brunel
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
Eric Hoffer
I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.
Howard Barker
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