Quotes of Partiality - somelinesforyou

“ Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them. ”

- Edward R. Murrow

“ Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on. ”

- Unknown

“ We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices — against half the human race — that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition. ”

- Eva Figes

“ Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.. - Hubert Humphrey. ”

- Hubert Humphrey

“ It is never too late to give up your prejudices. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ I have only one prejudice in horseflesh - I do not like a white one. ”

- Ernest Thompson Seton

“ Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness. ”

- William James

“ What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order. ”

- Dolly Parton

“ Caffeine. The gateway drug. ”

- Eddie Vedder

“ Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. ”

- Babe Ruth

“ It was all I lived for, to play baseball. ”

- Branch Rickey

“ The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know. ”

- Mickey Mantle

“ A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ”

- William James

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

- Albert Einstein

“ Criticism is prejudice made plausible. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Prejudices are what fools use for reason. ”

- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

“ Prejudices are what fools use for reason. ”

- Voltaire

“ Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue. ”

- Charles Simmons

“ Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. ”

- Sydney Smith

“ He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices. ”

- Carlo Goldoni

“ How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions! ”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

“ He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. ”

- James Fenimore Cooper
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