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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.
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.
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on.
Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on.
Rigid judgmental
opinions
can block descent
of Spirit's pinions.
Rigid judgmental
opinions
can block descent
of Spirit's pinions.
Prejudice is the reason of fools
Prejudice is the reason of fools
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.