Prejudice Quotes
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Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience. (Quote by - Ernest Dimnet)
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. (Quote by - John Wesley)
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, JR.)
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
The prejudices of men emanate from the mind, and may be overcome; the prejudices of women emanate from the heart and are impregnable. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste de Boyer)
Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin. (Quote by - Henry Wheeler Shaw)
Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. (Quote by - Countess of Blessington)
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. (Quote by - Charlotte Brontė)
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. (Quote by - Lord Francis Jeffrey)
Rigid judgmental opinions can block descent of Spirit's pinions. (Quote by - Saiom Shriver)
The prejudices of youth pass away with it. Those of old age last only because there is no other age to be hoped for. (Quote by - Leszczynski Stanislaus)
People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances. (Quote by - Philip Gilbert Hamerton)
Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself. (Quote by - From a Winston advertisement)
A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it. (Quote by - Carl T. Rowan)
All colors will agree in the dark. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
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. (Quote by - Lord Jeffrey)
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. (Quote by - Edward Roscoe Murrow)
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
He hears but half who hears one party only. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. (Quote by - Wayne W. Dyer)
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us. (Quote by - Abraham Coles)
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. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)
Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same. Prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Prejudice is all in your head. (Quote by - As seen)
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
If only closed minds came with closed mouths. (Quote by - As seen on a button)
When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue. (Quote by - Madame de Stael)
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings. (Quote by - Franklin Thomas)
Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks. (Quote by - Duchess Abrantes)
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times? (Quote by - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne)
Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on. (Quote by - Anonymous)
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices. (Quote by - Carlo Goldoni)
When the judgement's weak,The prejudice is strong. (Quote by - Kane O'Hara)
Prejudices are the props of civilization. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd. (Quote by - Voltaire)
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
If your lens is prejudice, you're wearing the wrong prescription. (Quote by - Carrie Latet)
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices. (Quote by - Remy De Gourmont)
Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. (Quote by - Nelson DeMille)
We are each burdened with prejudice; against the poor or the rich, the smart or the slow, the gaunt or the obese. It is natural to develop prejudices. It is noble to rise above them. (Quote by - Author Unknown)
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. (Quote by - Ben Hecht)
Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting . It is the last socially acceptable prejudice. (Quote by - Bernice Sandler)
Prejudice is the child of ignorance. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. (Quote by - Merry Browne)
Our prejudices are like physical infirmities - we cannot do what they prevent us from doing. (Quote by - John Lancaster Spalding)
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. (Quote by - W. C. Fields)
Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice. (Quote by - Charles Mildmay)
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. (Quote by - Ralph W. Sockman)
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. (Quote by - Clint Eastwood)
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions--bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities. (Quote by - Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us. (Quote by - Richard Cowper)
Prejudices are what fools use for reason. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims. (Quote by - Friedrich H. Jacobi)
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon. (Quote by - George Aiken)
In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together. (Quote by - Ralph W. Sockman)
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. (Quote by - William James)
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world and ignorance of mankind. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Prejudice is the twin of illiberality. (Quote by - George Denison Prentice)
