Prejudice Quotes

The prejudices of youth pass away with it. Those of old age last only because there is no other age to be hoped for.

Leszczynski Stanislaus

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

George Denison Prentice

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.

Thomas Paine

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

Voltaire

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Adlai E. Stevenson

When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.

Madame de Stael

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

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Clint Eastwood

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

William James

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

Countess of Blessington

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 The Great

Prejudice is the reason of fools

Voltaire

Uninformed strong opinions - and I particularly include religious ones, which for some reason get special treatment - are of course mere clusters of prejudices and no more appropriate than mine, yours or anyone else's are on topics we don't understand - as worthless as my opinions on hockey, Noel Edmonds or rimming.

Derren Victor Brown
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