#prejudice

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever. ↗

— Jane Austen

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I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music; but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all those born to understand it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

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Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

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I don't mind bigots. You're allowed to be bigoted, if that makes you happy. Just do it at home. And not around the children. ↗

— Maureen Johnson

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You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her. ↗

— Jane Austen

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She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. ↗

— George Bancroft

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