931 Quotes About Prejudice

How to care for the injured body,the kind of body that can't holdthe content it is living?

Most often, people look at life through a screen of prejudice. They do not see reality as it is; they see it as they want it to be.

...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath - who were they? Only be reading could she find out.

People like honesty when it favors them.

An unconditioned mind alone is a pure mind which sees the reality without any prejudice. Knowledge of the self, spiritual awakening or self-realisation are the different names given to the unconditioned mind which is pure because it has the ability to see the truth as it is.

Here’s the main fallacy. They defend their discrimination against those who believe the Bible by pointing to the opinion of the scientific majority that was caused by the discrimination against those who believe the Bible. They defend their bullying by pointing to a majority, but that majority was created through bullying. That’s a circular reasoning fallacy and an extreme example of the evil of discrimination and prejudice.

Rather than swallowing our pride and simply asking what we do not know, we choose to fill in the blanks ourselves and later become humbled. Wisdom was often, in its youth, proven foolish, and ones humiliated were meant to become wise.

I began by making assumptions about the stories Borges chose for me -- that Kipling's prose would be stilted, Stevenson's childish, Joyce's unintelligible -- buy very soon prejudice gave way to experience, and the discovery of one story gave way to another.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.