Albert Einstein:
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:
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Barack Obama:
I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.
Charlotte Bronte:
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 rocks.
Edward R. Murrow:
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experience. No one can eliminate prejudices–just recognize them.
H. L. Mencken:
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
James Baldwin:
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
Mark Twain:
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
Walter Lippmann:
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
William James:
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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