#prejudices

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. ↗

— Mary Astell

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I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. ↗

— W. C. Fields

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Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. ↗

— Countess of Blessington

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As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason. ↗

— Voltaire

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Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

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I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Roger Bacon

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

— John Barton

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