A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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.
For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however, ancient, can be trusted without proof. . . . Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.
The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.
Most people don't think, they just rearrange their prejudices.
Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.
In attacking the young, the liberal, and the black, Daley was in the mainstream of America's mass prejudices. The Democratic party may have suffered by his actions, but Daley came out. . . even more popular than before because bust their heads was the mood of the land and Daley had swung the biggest club.
Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer.
Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.
Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better that it should be so; as such common prejudices contribute more to order and quiet, than their own separate reasonings would do, uncultivated and unimproved as they are.
Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many, and least of all for the superstitions of the dead.
If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said. . . One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate