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Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.
~ Duchess Abrantes ~
All colors will agree in the dark.
~ Francis Bacon ~
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.
~ Quentin Crisp ~
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices
~ Carlo Goldoni ~
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.
~ Remy De Gourmont ~
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
~ William Hazlitt ~
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
Reasoning against prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice.
~ Mildmay ~
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
~ Edward R. Murrow ~
We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.
~ Rosalyn Sussman ~
Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life.
~ Source Unknown ~
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
~ Voltaire ~
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