#prejudices

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#class #defies #make #mind #out

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices. ↗

— John Henry Mackay

#brief #i #make #never #other

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

— Nicolas Malebranche

#easily #got #longer #old #prejudices

There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever. ↗

— Jim McKay

#gender #like #lot #oftentimes #open

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ↗

— William James

#many #merely #people #prejudices #rearranging

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ↗

— William James

#merely #people #prejudices #rearranging #their

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. ↗

— Rod Serling

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#curing #earlier #false #follies #latter