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Letter "P" » prejudices
«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.'»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
| About:
Education,
Prejudice,
Tolerance
| Keywords:
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«Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.»
Author: Countess of (Marguerite Gardiner) Blessington
| About:
Prejudice
| Keywords:
chains, forged, forges, forging, prejudices
«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.»
Author: Remy de Gourmont
| Keywords:
associates, exactitude, interests, Or logic, prejudices, verifiable
«Prejudices are what fools use for reason.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Fool,
Prejudice,
Reason
| Keywords:
fools, prejudiced, prejudices, reason, use
«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.»
Author: Jon Stewart
(Actor, Comedian)
| Keywords:
attended, even chance, get in, get in touch, heads, heads of state, head of state, prejudices, summit, summits, The New Yorker
«Prejudices save time.»
«That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord, and cultivate prejudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Prejudice,
Thinking
| Keywords:
prejudices, rearrange, rearranged, rearranging
«Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
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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»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
perspire, perspiring, picking, pickings, picking up, prejudices
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