Quotes
Quotes about Prejudice
An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes. This unification of speaker and listener is actually and extension and enlargement of ourselves, and new knowledge is always gained from this. Moreover, since true listening involves bracketing, a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the other. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will fell less and less vulnerable and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the duet dance of love is begun again. -M. Scott Peck.
Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
The greatest obstacle to progress is prejudice.
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their 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.
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.
Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on.
Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity.
To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.
A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
