(255 quotes found)
“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
Voltaire
“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”
Maya Angelou
“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
“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.”
Albert Einstein
“Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.”
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
“Prejudice is the reason of fools”
“Prejudice is an opinion without judgment”
“Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.”
Oscar Wilde
“Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
William James
“And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.”