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We tend not to be especially critical when presented with evidence that seems to confirm our prejudices. — Carl Sagan

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

There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules. — Wolf Kahn

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour. — Samuel Johnson

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves. — Andre Gide

Most people just want to pass quietly in society. No preconceptions, no prejudices. — Leah Raeder

There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi. — Ferran Adria

we do not choose our circumstances, the prejudices that we inherit, or our privilege or lack of it. It — Phoebe Robinson

When an audience shares your prejudices you can always count on their applause. — Marty Rubin

They entrenched themselves in their preferences, their beliefs, their prejudices, and closed ranks against everything that was different — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I soon learned to separate theological from moral prejudices, and I gave up looking for a supernatural origin of evil. A — Friedrich Nietzsche

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices. — Wes Fesler

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. — Sargent Shriver

Why are other people's prejudices so strange, while our own are so thought-out and reasonable? — Donna Leon

Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires. — William Feather

In reading Chesterton I was undermining my own most dearly held prejudices. — Joseph Pearce

Everything was politics, and politics was ideology, and ideology came down to personal prejudices rather than the quest for truth. — Tom Clancy

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism. — Lord Acton

Even the poor are rich in prejudices. — Marty Rubin

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind. — Baron De Montesquieu

Every person's true identity is beautiful, and much of the ugliness we observe in others was put inside of them by external influences. — Bryant McGill

You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed. — John Fowles

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd. — Voltaire

It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices. — Roger Bacon

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake. — John F. Kennedy

I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings. — Charles Lamb

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation. — John Hope Franklin

It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law. — Thomas Sowell

No man can see his own prejudices ... — Frances Wright

Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again. — DaShanne Stokes

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists. — Thomas Kuhn

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print. — Walter Cronkite

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind. — William Hazlitt

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. — Samuel Johnson

We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity. — Paul Eldridge

What the scholars discovered behind the veil was a Jesus created in their own images according to their own prejudices. — R.C. Sproul

The love of God pays no attention to my prejudices caused by my natural individuality. — Oswald Chambers

Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices. — Charles Bukowski

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty. — Henry Hazlitt

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. — Jonathan Swift

Come out, O lions, and shake off the ancient mysticism and prejudices. — Abhijit Naskar

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices. — Jane Porter

Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices. — Barbara Mertz

Most people don't really want the truth. They're just looking for answers that confirm their prejudices. — Jim Wilhelmsen

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices
just recognize them. — Edward R. Murrow

It seems to me that a lot of people are using religious arguments to advance their own prejudices. — Russell Brand

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better. — Sir Fulke Greville

He was no prude, but he had those decent prejudices of which no self-respecting man can wholly rid himself, however broad-minded he may try to be. — P.G. Wodehouse

The man patrolling his prejudices never sleeps. — Steven Erikson

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions. — Jane Austen

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood. — Rene Descartes

Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare. — Abdu'l- Baha

His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices. — Oscar Wilde

There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them. — Steve Coogan

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim. — Lavrenti Lopes

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society. — Kenneth Clark

When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish. — Muhammad Ali

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

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. — Victor Hugo

I have no prejudices: all my irrational hatreds are based on solid evidence. — Ashleigh Brilliant

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. — Francis Jeffrey

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them. — Herman Melville

To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims. — Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices. — Oscar Wilde

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail. — Brandon Sanderson

Are you thinking or are you just rearranging your prejudices? — Walter Martin

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions. — Sydney J. Harris

The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him. — William Hazlitt

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices. — Carlo Goldoni

The true call of liberation of women is not in taking off their clothes, but taking off their prejudices. — Shannon L. Alder

A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer. — Bill Jay

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics. — John Mason Brown

Travel should rub off Local Prejudices and provide an enlarged and impartial view of Men and Things. — Josiah Tucker

Prejudices, mysticism, bigotry these things only distort religion, like they have actually done to the most religions of the world. — Abhijit Naskar

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices. — Aleister Crowley

I like groaning. That means that you're not pandering to their already settled prejudices. — Bill Maher

All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all. — DaShanne Stokes

Certain names always awake certain prejudices. — Philibert Joseph Roux

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally. — Groucho Marx

Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself. — Mina Loy

Stereotyped prejudices, fine to right made, they spoil my stomach. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Education is the exchange of one set of prejudices for another. — Marty Rubin

The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations. — Randall Kennedy

These passive prejudices were not necessarily from a place of ugly, but they certainly weren't from a place of respect. — Trae Crowder

God has no forms, no limbs, no qualities, no preferences, no prejudices. — Sathya Sai Baba

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. — Laurence J. Peter

Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win. — Bear Grylls

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition. — Baron De Montesquieu

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason ... — Mary Russell Mitford

When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share. — Celia Green

A citizen of the world does not harbor prejudices. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices. — Albert Camus

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic. — Tryon Edwards

I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South. — Clarice Taylor

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today. — Buchi Emecheta

I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you. — Leon Botstein

All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs. — Anna Julia Cooper

If you stop and confine yourself to one place, you will develop prejudices. — Guo Xiang