Samuel Johnson Quotes About Prejudice

• Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

  Samuel Johnson

  Religion, Atheism, Prejudice

• Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

  Samuel Johnson

  Prejudice, Facts, Opinion

• There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Errors, Age, Prejudice

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.183

• Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Believe, Adventure, Accomplishment

  Samuel Johnson (1828). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.199

• Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Self, Prejudice

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.143

• Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till wishes for a particular qualification are improved to hopes of attainment, and hopes of attainment to belief of possession.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Wish, Prejudice

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.323

• To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.

  Samuel Johnson

  Prejudice, Weak, Has Beens

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent persons”, p.225

• Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.

  Samuel Johnson

  Prejudice, World, Favour

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.119

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