#prejudices

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

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#differ #environment #equanimity #even #expressing

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#i #mind #onto #prejudices

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#experience #history #learn #men #metaphysical

Prejudices save time. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#save #time

The air is the only place free from prejudices. ↗

— Bessie Coleman

#free #only #place #prejudices

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#believe #commitment #contrast #difference #entire