Among leaders in Europe there are those who have prejudices against Turkey, like France and Germany.
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.
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.
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.
Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.
So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably saw ancient Britain as an alien land.
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!
Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
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.
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
I like the idea that people who see 'Gone Girl' are possibly going to come out with incredibly different reactions to it - not just between men and women, but if you are in a good relationship or a bad relationship. Everyone is going to bring their own bundle of prejudices and viewpoints and experiences to it.
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.
When you buy into the cultural idea of what's acceptable and unacceptable, you reinforce negative stereotypes and prejudices. That wouldn't work for me. I don't love to give advice to anyone, because we all have to make our own choices, but I'd want to live my life in truth.
For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.
We all have our prejudices, and we may or may not be aware of them. Sometimes people walk by me and give me a wider berth. It happens. I wear hoodies all the time because my head gets cold. Something innocuous can be misunderstood.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.
If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.
Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.
I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.
When you're a kid, you're not as corrupted by the world at large. You're not corrupted by prejudices. You're much more open-minded. Much more interested in the world around you. 'Sweet Tooth' is about the world returning to that kind of place.
