PREJUDICE QUOTES

• Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.
  ~ Francis Quarles ~
• Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• 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 rocks.
  ~ Charlotte Brontë ~
• Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
  ~ Voltaire ~
• Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
  ~ Maya Angelou ~
• It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• 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 ~
• The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
  ~ Terry Eagleton ~
• There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.
  ~ Joseph Gordon-levitt ~
• There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
  ~ Andre Gide ~
• There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
  ~ Andre Gide ~
• Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
  ~ Bear Grylls ~
• History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
  ~ Will Durant ~
• Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
  ~ Karen Armstrong ~
• You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.
  ~ Carly Fiorina ~
• Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear - integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies.
  ~ Andrew Weil ~
• When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.
  ~ Anne Lamott ~
• The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
  ~ Charles Caleb Colton ~
• A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
  ~ William James ~
• 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 ~
• The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
  ~ Mark Twain ~
• Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
  ~ Albert Einstein ~