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
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
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
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
—William James
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
—Lillian Hellman
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
—William Hazlitt
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair
Healthy people are always prejudiced against medicine.
—Catharine Maria Sedgwick
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
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
—Charles Caleb Colton
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices—just recognize them.
—Edward R. Murrow
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
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
—Henry David Thoreau
When the judgement's weak,
The prejudice is strong.
—Kane O'Hara
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
—Samuel Johnson