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- Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965), television broadcast, December 31, 1955
- Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
- Francis Jeffrey (1773 - 1850)
- If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.
- George Aiken
- Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), 'Economy,' Walden, 1854
- When the judgement's weak,
The prejudice is strong. - Kane O'Hara
- Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
- Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
- There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
- W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
- Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
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