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"Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or artificial stimulants."
"He hears but half who hears one party only."
"The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child!"
"Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see."
"When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share."
"What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices."
"Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice."
"Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away."
"A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society."
"I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpitagainst the K.K.K. in the '20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!"
"Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor."
"It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before."
"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."
"Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."
"Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses."
"Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices."
"A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness."
"I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me."
"Till this moment I never knew myself."
"When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish."
