I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.
Oscar Wilde
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We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.
Oscar Wilde
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
When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
Dale Carnegie
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
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
Samuel Johnson
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
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
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Henry David Thoreau
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Martin H. Fischer
Those of us who have always considered ourselves 'liberal' and 'tolerant' have discovered the prejudices and stereotypes which each of us harbor. This has certainly been a learning experience for us, and we are still learning.
Michael Cooper
Sometimes, ... I do think anti-Catholicism is one of the remaining legal prejudices in this country. People make comments they couldn't get away with with other religious groups.
John Vaughan
Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
Tryon Edwards
When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices.. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.
Hugh Sidey
I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.
Howard Barker
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Edward R. Murrow
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.
Jack Handy
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
Marianne Williamson
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
Some people are unable to get over their prejudices. The culprit is the constant characterization of options as gambling.
Brad Zigler
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Frederick Ii
I equate it with a really new take on 'All in the Family,' where you see our weaknesses, you see our prejudices, especially our fears, and through them, and through the hilarity of us trying to deal with them, you learn about yourself, hopefully. And let's face it, the only normal family is a dysfunctional one on some level.
Dee Wallace
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Frederick The Great
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
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter
I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.
Mark Twain
For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
Luther Burbank
Above, far above the prejudices and passions of men soar the laws of nature. Eternal and immutable, they are the expression of the creative power they represent what is, what must be, what otherwise could not be. Man can come to understand the: he is incapable of changing them.
Vilfredo Pareto
It was both difficult and it was contentious. But that wasn't the point. When it all came down it was a 5-0 approval with the conditions. In this way, I think everyone was able to take their egos, their biases, and their prejudices and leave them at the door.
Robert Wright
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best to at least rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
Luther Burbank
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
Francis Jeffrey
My concern is that this is going to become justification for prejudices against certain groups.
Bruce T. Lahn
Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.
Frank Knox
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
All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.
Casey Miller
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
William James
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
Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
W. Somerset Maugham
There are so many prejudices. In Germany, there is a desire to be similar. We are very suspicious of others.
Rita Suessmuth
What stores are around, what stores aren't around, what advertisers want to present as an ideal woman or man, passing prejudices, things that you would never say now that you could say then.
David Remnick
We are speaking out against the war, the occupation and the human rights violations. We in no way wanted to exploit prejudices.
Bahadir Ozdener
In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
Buchi Emecheta
People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintance.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
We are conducting more interviews in those two areas, relatives as well as associates, ... So far we have no indication of any prejudices against any sort of religion or nationality.
Richard Garcia
Not only do I think that has no validity, I think it's really stupid for anyone to put their own prejudices and their own homophobia on a complete fantasy movie.
Ahmed Best
The air is the only place free from prejudices.
Bessie Coleman
We cannot accept the prejudices that some international organizations and some individuals hold against China and their practices over these issues.
Zhang Zuoji
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