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Tag Name "Prejudices" (330)

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Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
Tryon Edwards
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Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.
Nicolas Malebranche
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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 firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
Charlotte Bronte
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Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.
Abdu'l-Bahá
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Voltaire
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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
Samuel Richardson
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Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.
Mary Russell Mitford
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.
Ernest Dimnet
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
Andre Gide
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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.
Voltaire
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Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.
Sir Fulke Greville
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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.
Remy de Gourmont
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Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant talk about them openly - if we get attacked for it then this is an anti-empathetic movement and therefore it cannot complain about a lack of empathy.
Stefan Molyneux
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The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'.
Richard Dawkins
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Science is not 'organized common sense' at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient, anthropocentric prejudices that we call intuition.
Stephen Jay Gould
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Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle. For prejudices, as we have seen earlier, are often built-in principles. They are the extract which the mind has made of experience.
Richard M. Weaver
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You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others
Steven Erikson
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You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them.
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
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We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.
T. S. Eliot
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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
Rod Serling
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