“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.” ThinkingLooksEnoughAttitudeDisciplineTruth IsPrejudiceChecksRacistGood Enough Author:Peter Hollingworth
“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.” IfsThinkingKnowsFactsPassionSituationKnow HowKnowingFailingJudgingDisciplinePrejudiceKnow YourselfAdjustment Author:Bernard Baruch
“Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely.” MindBelieveDisciplineFitPrejudiceSkepticism Book:The Works of George Santayana: Scepticism and animal faith. Some meanings of the word Source: The Works of George Santayana: Scepticism and animal faith. Some meanings of the word
“This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline of thought, desire, and action, one that frees the mind from habitual prejudices and appetites, and allows it to dwell in the gratuity and glory of all things. As an old monk on Mount Athos once told me, contemplative prayer is the art of seeing reality as it truly is; and, if one has not yet acquired the ability to see God in all things, one should not imagine that one will be able to see God in himself.” IfsShouldMindArtRealityAbleActionDesirePrayerSimpleAbilityPathImagineSeeingDisciplineGloryAll ThingsPrejudiceAppetiteImagine ThatMonkHabitualContemplativeAbility To SeeSupplicationContemplative PrayerGratuity Author:David Bentley
“An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.” WorldGivingDesireStepsListeningDisciplineEssentialsGiving UpPrejudiceShoesSettingSettingsTemporarySpeakersFrame Of Reference Author:M. Scott Peck
“I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually frees us from prejudice, no matter what religion or political persuasion they are. I try to create a river-like discourse. The river is not political, it's not on your side or against you. It's an invitation into the onward flow.” TryingMatterPoliticalLanguageSidesDisciplineTraditionFlowRiversPrejudiceNo Matter WhatPrisonerDiscoursePersuasionInvitationsYour SideGood Poetry Author:David Whyte
“There is so much closed-mindedness, there is so much closed-off thought, there is so much bigotry and prejudice within knowledge that it, I think, is stunting the actual intelligence growth of our population. Not our capabilities but our actual intelligence growth because all of the stigma that's attached to people that don't have formal educations as opposed to those who do. But the people that have formal educations have been programmed and indoctrinated in many cases, not in all the disciplines.” PeopleThinkingGrowthDisciplinePrejudiceBigotryCapabilityStigma Author:Rush Limbaugh