Prejudice Quotes - Page 26

• Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science. ...in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Reality, Ideas, Confusion

  William Stanley Jevons (1879). “Political Economy”

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• I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear. I recognize what is anti-Semitism is rude jesting, vulgar jealousy of métier, hereditary prejudice; but also what can be considered as in fact legitimate defence.

  Theodor Herzl

  Believe, Hatred, Rude

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• Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

  Irving Langmuir

  Character, Disappear Completely, Scientist

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• My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about. There's a lot of prejudice toward us but the more people talk about it, the less of a big deal it will be. And that will be better for everyone.

  Anna Paquin

  People, Sexuality, Bigs

  "Anna Paquin Talks 'True Blood,' Her Bisexuality, and Her Country's Pride in 'Lord of the Rings'" by Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 15, 2011.

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• If we were the problem, it would be very convenient, kick Greece out, everything's fine. But what happened to Spain? What about Portugal? What about Italy? What about the whole of the Eurozone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice about what has to happen.

  George Papandreou

  Spain, Would Be, Needs

  "CNN's Amanpour" with Christiane Amanpour, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2012.

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• It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

  Ione Skye

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• I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.

  Joe Mantello

  Thinking, Directors, Needs

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• If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

  Chris Cornell

  Stupid, Exercise, Artist

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• Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partiality or prejudice; hear his complaints; if well founded, redress them; if otherwise, discourage them, in order to prevent frivolous ones. Discourage vice in every shape, and impress upon the mind of every man, from the first to the lowest, the importance of the cause, and what it is they are contending for.

  George Washington

  Men, Order, Mind

  George Washington (1989). “Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious”, Mount Vernon Ladies Assn of the

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• Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.

  Russell Kirk

  Loneliness, Pride, Men

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.41, Regnery Publishing

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• If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.

  Daley Thompson

  Sports, Real, Hard Work

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• I think the truth is, we are all racist, really, when it comes down to it. I think all of us have to check ourselves from time to time, and say, 'Look, that sort of attitude isn't good enough.' It takes discipline to keep our prejudices out.

  Peter Hollingworth

  Attitude, Thinking, Discipline

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• To most of you, your neighbor is a stranger, a guy with a barkin' dog and a high fence around him. Now you can't be a stranger to any guy that's on your own team. So tear down the fence that separates you. Tear down the fence and you'll tear down a lot of hates and prejudices. Tear down all the fences in the country and you'll really have teamwork.

  Robert Riskin

  Teamwork, Country, Dog

  "Fictional character: Long John Willoughby/John Doe". "Meet John Doe", 1941.

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• Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.

  Lavrenti Lopes

  Victim, Preference

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• What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.

  Robert Breault

  Pride, Sweat, Effort

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• Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

  Bernard Baruch

  Passion, Thinking, Knowing

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• There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

  Charles Curtis

  Attitude, Hands, Bias And Prejudice

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• There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Men, May

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• Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition.

  Rajneesh

  Ideas, Looks, Empty

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• I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.

  Charles Lamb

  Made, Bundles

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.35

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• The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.

  Aristotle

  Anger, Men, Judging

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.21, Aeterna Press

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• And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  America, People, Way

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.28, University of Illinois Press

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• Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Logic, Used, Instruments

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1905). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.

  Elias Canetti

  Fear, Transformation

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• The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Real, Real Value, Values

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comœdo, X. 29, p. 647-49, 1922.

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