#prejudices

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

— Sydney Smith

#book #i #man #never #prejudices

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

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

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#disguised #exhibited #expressed #feelings #general

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices. ↗

— Carlo Goldoni

#full #his #leaves #never #prejudices

The air is the only place free from prejudices. ↗

— Bessie Coleman

#free #only #place #prejudices

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#colonies #different #establishing #exaggerated #instrumental

Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#hasn #obama #obama presidency #out #prejudices

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim. ↗

— Lavrenti Lopes

#continue #exist #how #learn #less

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#easily #got #longer #old #prejudices