Prejudices Quotes

Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

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

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.