“ We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. ”
- Jessamyn West- Copy
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“ I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor. ”
- Samuel Richardson- Copy
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“ Prejudice cannot see the things that are because it is always looking for things that aren't. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 466
“ A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices. ”
- William James- Copy
- 263
“ A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ She had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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“ Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. ”
- Lord Chesterfield- Copy
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“ Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. ”
- George Bancroft- Copy
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“ Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out. ”
- Lord Jeffrey- Copy
- 67
“ For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. ”
- Luther Burbank- Copy
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“ One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Prejudices are what fools use for reason. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
- 248
“ Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ”
- William James- Copy
- 247
“ In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling. ”
- Robert F. Goheen- Copy
- 235
“ An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality. ”
- John Cage- Copy
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“ I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by a dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificient glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet… ”
- Jack London- Copy
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“ I'm quite sure that... I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being — that is enough for me he can't be any worse. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 226
“ I have no race prejudice. I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being — that is enough for me; he can't be any worse. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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