Really to live requires a great deal of love, a great feeling for silence, a great simplicity with an abundance of experience; it requires a mind that is capable of thinking very clearly, that is not bound by prejudice or superstition, by hope or fear. —Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things More about this quote Tags: love fear hope silence simplicity prejudice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal’s avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedient’s taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will. —Hannah Arendt More about this quote Tags: activism prejudice law civil disobedience crime Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: prejudice equanimity opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. —William James More about this quote Tags: opinion prejudice thinking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. —Lillian Hellman More about this quote Tags: justice opinion prejudice perspective Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room. —William Hazlitt More about this quote Tags: prejudice accomplishment help custom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. —Upton Sinclair More about this quote Tags: understanding prejudice learning knowledge money salary Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Healthy people are always prejudiced against medicine. —Catharine Maria Sedgwick More about this quote Tags: prejudice health medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately. —Scott Adams More about this quote Tags: fear prejudice Christianity atheism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: prejudice time humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. —Edward R. Murrow More about this quote Tags: prejudice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: prejudice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Tags: prejudice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When the judgement's weak, The prejudice is strong. —Kane O'Hara More about this quote Tags: prejudice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: prejudice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email