#prejudices

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#chance #even #get #giving #had

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#age #collection #common #common sense #eighteen

Every person's true identity is beautiful, and much of the ugliness we observe in others was put inside of them by external influences. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#personal-identity #prejudices #beauty

The inherent prejudice in unnaturally-produced nationalism causes a form of cultural blindness, which prevents us from seeing the obvious ways we could co-exist in the world as a co-operative human family. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#culture #humanity #prejudices-nationalism #family

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#emancipation #focus #life #mind #mind-body-spirit

It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices. ↗

— Roger Bacon

#easier #house #human #human-nature #man

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

— Philip Stanhope

#heard #indeed #minded #mistresses #often

A stereotype is not a stereotype if it's true. ↗

— Ron DeLegge II

#prejudices #racism #stereotypes #racism

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

#blindly #easily #first #ignorance #interest

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses. ↗

— John Barton

#blind #disregard #good #how #inappropriate