Prejudice quotes
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"One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice."
"For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while."
"Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries."
"Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen."
"The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality."
"Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it."
"We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice."
"Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole."
"Consider data without prejudice."
"Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones."
"I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices."
"Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman."
"You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out."
"Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense."
"Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries."
"Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly."
"Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then."
"Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how."
"My good opinion once lost is lost forever."
"You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy."
