Prejudice Quotes
These are some of the best 'Prejudice' quotations and sayings.
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A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Because a total eclipse of the sun is above my own head, I will not therefore insist that there must be an eclipse in America also; and because snowflakes fall before my own nose, I need not believe that the Gold Coast is also snowed up.
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Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.
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Every one is forward to complain of the prejudices that mislead other men and parties, as if he were free, and had none of his own. What now is the cure? No other but this, that every man should let alone others' prejudices and examine his own.
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudice; whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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He hears but half who hears one party only.
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He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kind of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
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Human nature is so constituted, that all see, and judge better, in the affairs of other men, than in their own.
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Ignorance is less remote from truth than prejudice.
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In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of fore-taken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have the jaundice, to whom everything appearelh yellow.
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Instead of casting away our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices; and the longer they have lasted the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason because we suspect that in this stock each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themseive of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.
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Moral prejudices are the stop-gaps of virtue; and as is the case with other stop-gaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them, than through any other part of the fence.
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National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.
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Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.
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Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
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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.
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None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice.
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Overcoming prejudice: the only possible way through love, which creates no graven images.
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