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.

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.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that read more

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

Prejudice is the reason of fools

Prejudice is the reason of fools

The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for read more

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.