#prejudices

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat. ↗

— Martin Henry Fischer

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The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices. ↗

— Frederick The Great

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You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. ↗

— Luther Burbank

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

— Countess of Blessington

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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

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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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Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

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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

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