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Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks. - Duchess de Abrantes Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world and ignorance of mankind. - Joseph Addison He bears but half who hears one party only. - Aeschylus, Eum (428) The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. - George Bancroft 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 stones. - Charlotte Bronte ("Currer Bell") Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature. - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France Prejudice may be considered as a continual false medium of viewing things, for prejudiced persons not only never speak well, but also never think well, of those whom they dislike, and the whole character and conduct is considered with an eye to that particular thing which offends them. - Samuel Butler (1) As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in those we despise and hate. - Frederick Douglass I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. - Clint Eastwood He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error. - Tryon Edwards Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic. - Tryon Edwards He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice. - Jacques Anatole I. France (Jacques Anatole Thibault) Prejudices are the props of civilization. - Andre Gide He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices. [Lat., Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.] - Carlo Goldoni, Pamela (I, 14) Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason. - William Hazlitt (1) Prejudice is the child of ignorance. - William Hazlitt (1) Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. - Ben Hecht To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eye. - John Locke (1) Everyone is a prisoner of his own experience. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them. - Edward R. Murrow How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed. - Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker All words are prejudices. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Remember, when the judgment's weak, The prejudice is strong. - Kane O'Hara, Midas--Air (act I, sc. 3) Prejudice is the twin of illiberality. - George Denison Prentice A bigot delights in public ridicule, for he begins to think he is a martyr. - Sydney Smith To all intents and purposes, he who will not open his eyes is, for the present, as blind as he who cannot. - Bishop Robert South Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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