#Prejudice

"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity."

"He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth."

"It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices."

"But little Carlos's most important defense was not his good punch but rather the beginnings of a great education."

"Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it."

"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."

"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."

"Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence."

"If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed."

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

"My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you."

"Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go."

"Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it."

"Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice."

"You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done."

"That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it."

"When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind."

"Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education."

"Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition."

"...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath - who were they? Only be reading could she find out."