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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.
Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or read more
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly read more
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful read more
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.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice.
Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice.