Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Prejudice

Quotes about: Prejudice

• Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Ignorance, Government, Errors

• Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Wife, Mistress, Prejudice

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.292, OUP Oxford

• The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better that it should be so; as such common prejudices contribute more to order and quiet, than their own separate reasonings would do, uncultivated and unimproved as they are.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Believe, Ignorance, Thinking

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.244

• We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hero, Prejudice, Madmen

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.76, Wildside Press LLC

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