#prejudices

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions. ↗

— Jane Austen

#general #give #mind #more #opinions

It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#change #clean #keep #least #minds

Prejudices are what fools use for reason. ↗

— Voltaire

#prejudices #reason #use

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian. ↗

— Robert Towne

#attracted #been #being #culture #ethnic

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#because #deficient #domination #dose #inefficient

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#difficult #effort #find #instincts #many

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#book #i #man #never #prejudices

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#chance #even #get #giving #had

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#age #collection #common #common sense #eighteen

Every person's true identity is beautiful, and much of the ugliness we observe in others was put inside of them by external influences. ↗