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Prejudice of any kind are an insult to intelligence By Miguel El Portugues Prejudice Intelligence Kind Insult

Prejudice is the pinnacle of self injected ignorance. It enables poor choices to be pre-chosen. By Tom Althouse Prejudice Ignorance Pinnacle Injected Prechosen

Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature. By Edmund Burke Skeptical Prejudice Emergency Decision Puzzled

Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason. By Russell Kirk Prejudice Superstition Bigotry Degenerate Prejudgment

Prejudices are the props of civilization. By Andre Gide Prejudices Civilization Props

Prejudice creates blindness; it is too busy hating to think. No matter how justified it might feel, prejudice will shackle you." "But By Jonathan Renshaw Prejudice Blindness Creates Busy Hating

People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause.'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption. By Idries Shah Symptom Prejudice People Handle Deal

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. By Francis Jeffrey Beware Prejudices Rats Traps Easily

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. By William Hazlitt Prejudice Ignorance Child

For one of the peculiarities about prejudice is that it seems always to speak from the heart; it seems, in some daring way, to be speaking the truth, to be saying what others secretly believe, but do not have the courage to say themselves. And the man who speaks against prejudice can often come to seem like the peddler of shopworn banalities, while the voice of prejudice can seem bold and original; a lone voice with the power to drown out others, the power to subdue. By Aatish Taseer Prejudice Heart Truth Power Peculiarities

One thing about prejudices once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go. By Cher Screwed Thing Prejudices Break

But I started to realize that it doesn't begin like this, that anybody can be the target for prejudice, all you have to be is "too" something . Too short, too fat, too clever, too big, too small, too slow, too new, "too different" from what others think of as normal. By Bryce Courtenay Prejudice Short Fat Clever Big

Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice By Lady Gaga Disease Prejudice Fashion Wear

Our prejudices :;we all have them are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie lurking at the bottom of the subterranean mind where the slowly ooze up and color our thinking without our knowing it. By Gerry Spence Prejudices Structure Part Personality Problem

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of. By Nicolas Malebranche Prejudices Easily Rid Coat Longer

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice. By Miroslav Volf Form Prejudice Injustice Untruthfulness Insidious

The great obstacle to progress is prejudice By Christian Nestell Bovee Prejudice Great Obstacle Progress

Our prejudices are like physical infirmities - we cannot do what they prevent us from doing. By John Lancaster Spalding Infirmities Prejudices Physical Prevent

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. By Charlotte Bronte Prejudices Education Firm Stones Difficult

Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education. By Liza Mundy Education Prejudice

Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved. By H.p. Lovecraft Race Nature Intended Evolved Prejudice

To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned. By Samuel Johnson Weak Pardoned Prejudiced Prejudices Laudable

Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin. By Josh Billings Prejudice Reason Thin Assumes Garb

I only have one prejudice, and that is against those who are prejudiced. By Lance Greenfield Prejudice Prejudiced

Sometimes it is difficult to realize or hear our own prejudices and own up to their existence. Admitting there is a problem is the first step to recovery. By Thomas Hodge Existence Difficult Realize Hear Prejudices

Remember, when the judgment's weak, the prejudice is strong By Kane O'hara Remember Weak Strong Judgment Prejudice

Prejudice will fall in a combat with interest. By Thomas Paine Prejudice Interest Fall Combat

Prejudice walking to and fro in flesh and blood is my horror, and, alas, a phenomenon so common; and people plume themselves so much upon their prejudices, as signs of decision of character and greatness of mind, nay, of true patriotism; and all the while they are simply the product of narrowness of intellect, and narrowness of heart. By Hector Bolitho Narrowness Alas Nay Horror Common

Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest. By Josephine Lawrence Prejudice Seeping Dark Stain Honest

We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice ... By Maria Edgeworth Prejudice Apt Opinion Differs

I have no prejudices: all my irrational hatreds are based on solid evidence. By Ashleigh Brilliant Prejudices Evidence Irrational Hatreds Based

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. By Marguerite Gardiner Prejudices Chains Forged Ignorance Men

Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it. By Muhammad Ali Prejudice Dark Sunlight Disinfects

You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met. By Tony Horwitz Prejudice Asked Define Making Met

Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice ... Inevitably he would be in a state of paralysis. He could not get up in the morning, or choose his necktie, or make his way to the office, ... or, to come right down to the essence of the thing, even maintain his identity. By Richard M. Weaver Prejudice Imagine Man Setting Day

Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination. By Joseph De Maistre Prejudice Ideas False Opinions Examination

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you. By Mercedes Lackey Inexperience Overcome Ignorance Enlightened Prejudice

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant. By Lydia M. Child Prejudices Ignorant Kinds Strongest Holds

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. By E.b. White Prejudice Saver Great Time Facts

Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo. By Ambrose Bierce Hypocrisy Prejudice Halo

Prejudices are what fools use for reason. By Voltaire Prejudices Reason Fools

I was thinking about how people prejudge other people. That's the same as prejudice, right? By Rosa Jordan People Thinking Prejudge Prejudice

The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person - things he sees and hears and reads, people he talks to, and places he visits. Any given reformer must be content to take a small and obscure place in a chain of cumulative pressures. By Margaret Halsey Things Time Person Reads People

When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind. By Criss Jami Kind Chance Confirm Mind Meet

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends. By Harper Lee Prejudice Word Faith Common Ends

Me can't be prejudice. Me can't me no think of life that way. Because, me figure if you prejudice, that mean you have a hate. If you have a hate inside of you, you can't be righteous. By Bob Marley Prejudice Hate Life Righteous Figure

The Tragedy of the human condition is that the very things that make us interesting and culturally important and progressively brilliant are our differences; and these are also the principle reasons for our prejudices By Bryce Courtenay Tragedy Differences Prejudices Human Condition

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives. By Katherine Paterson Lives Prejudice Characters Sad Write

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. By Joseph Addison Prejudice World Mankind Selfsufficiency Naturally

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic. By Tryon Edwards Prejudices Argument Logic Rarely Overcome

Why is the determination to fight against a prejudice a sure sign that one is full of it? Such a determination necessarily arises from an obsession. It constitutes an utterly sterile effort to get rid of it. In such a case the light of attention is the only thing which is effective, and it is not compatible with a polemical intention. By Simone Weil Determination Fight Prejudice Sign Full

There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever. By Jim Mckay People Oftentimes Lot Prejudices Open

Prejudice is always dangerous. By Wendy Beckett Prejudice Dangerous

The best antidote to prejudice is reality. By Barney Frank Reality Antidote Prejudice

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. By Adlai E. Stevenson Ignorance Hard Stubborn Prejudice

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself. By John Galliano Prejudice Life Fought Subjected

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced. By Herbert Spencer Prejudice Prejudiced Decry

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. By Edmund Burke Habit Arts Prejudice Renders Man

You know that prejudice isn't logical, which is why it is so hard to overcome. By P.c. Cast Logical Overcome Prejudice Hard

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice. By Denis Diderot Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone ... By Margaret Halsey Passionately Scrutiny People Prejudiced Turn

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 ... By Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Prejudices Beware Contradict Knowing Generality

Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds. By William Mcchesney Martin Prejudices Pyramids Upside Tiny Trivial

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice ... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough. By Nina Simone Prejudice Selfdoubt Worst Thing Kind

My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age. By Victor Hugo Childhood Began Begins Prejudices Alas

The biases we hold against other groups have the ability to wreak havoc on our crosscultural interactions. Before we enter into such interactions, we must do the difficult work of addressing our biases and blind spots. By Christena Cleveland Interactions Biases Hold Groups Ability

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging. By William Hazlitt Familiarity Distinction Interest Judging Confounds

Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice. By Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Pride Prejudice Race Antidote

When people misjudge, they inhale and exhale with obstinate, stagnant prejudice." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You By Angelica Hopes Misjudge Obstinate Stagnant Prejudice Angelica

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality. By George D. Prentice Prejudice Illiberality Twin

Stereotyped prejudices, fine to right made, they spoil my stomach. By Kristian Goldmund Aumann Stereotyped Prejudices Fine Made Stomach

These days, most Americans who are unashamedly prejudiced know better than to say so, except to a secure, like-minded audience, given that many people live and work in environments where they can be slapped on the wrist, publicly humiliated, or sacked for saying anything that smacks of an "ism." However, just as it takes mental effort to maintain a prejudice despite conflicting information, it takes mental effort to suppress those negative feelings. Social psychologists Chris Crandall and Amy Eshelman, reviewing the huge research literature on prejudice, found that whenever people are emotionally depleted - when they are sleepy, frustrated, angry, anxious, drunk, or stressed - they become more willing to express their real prejudices toward another group. By Anonymous Americans Ism Days Secure Likeminded

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it. By Charles R. Swindoll Prejudice Trait Learned Prejudiced Born

I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice By Kurt Cobain Prejudice Feel People

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice. By Josh Billings Ignorance Prejudice Wetnurse

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudicesjust recognize them. By Edward R. Murrow Experiences Prisoner Eliminate Prejudicesjust Recognize

There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [ ... ] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world. By H.g.wells Prejudice Cruelty World Evil Thing

prejudice unchallenged is prejudice perpetuated. By Christian Rudder Perpetuated Prejudice Unchallenged

The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races. By Ruth Benedict Arrogance Prejudice Defies Scientifically Human

Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish. By Philip Zimbardo Prejudice Life Discrimination Big Part

Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare. By Abdu'l- Baha Welfare Prejudices Happiness Kind Destroyers

Rabbi Alfred Bettleheim once said: "Prejudice saves us a painful trouble, the trouble of thinking. By Ruth Bader Ginsburg Prejudice Alfred Bettleheim Rabbi Thinking

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument. By Samuel Johnson Prejudice Reason Argument Founded Removed

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor. By Samuel Richardson Prejudices Deeper Removed Favor Disfavor

Discrimination is a disease. By Roger Staubach Discrimination Disease

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. By Laurence J. Peter Education Prejudices Method Acquires Higher

First accept the reality that we are all prejudiced because we have things and issues we have biases towards or against, based on our beliefs, thoughts and experiences. Accept that it is possible to differ on opinions, beliefs and philosophies without necessarily becoming inhumane or acrimonious towards each other. By Archibald Marwizi Based Thoughts Experiences Accept Beliefs

A counter to a jab is a left hook. What's the counter to prejudice? By Cameron Conaway Hook Counter Jab Left Prejudice

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. By H.l. Mencken Criticism Plausible Prejudice Made

The Only Person I'm Prejudice Against, is The Lazy One! By Latif Mercado Person Prejudice Lazy

All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs. By Anna Julia Cooper Prejudices Race Sect Sex Class

Ignorance and prejudice and fear go hand in hand By Neil Peart Ignorance Hand Prejudice Fear

When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win. By Gerry Spence Prejudice Logic Impotent Faced Justice

Only until all human beings begin to recognize themselves as human beings will prejudice be gone forever. People ask me what race I am, but there is no such thing as race. I just answer: "I'm a member of the human race. By Amelia Boynton Robinson Forever Human Race Begin Recognize

Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past By Prentice Mulford Unreasoning Past Prejudices Bred Continual

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now. By Ione Skye Amazing Prejudices

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is ... By Elizabeth Blackwell Prejudice Violent Blinder

Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice. By Don Paterson Prejudice Elicits Nod Recognition Reconfirmed

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment ... By Pliny The Younger Discernment Prejudiced Favor Powers

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts. By Mark Twain Thoughts Prejudice Exists Discolors