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“All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will may see and know. She conveys her truths only to those who are passive and receptive.”

Knows May Light Mother Found Nature Teach Mystery Listening Lessons Scientist Prejudice Notion Dogma Passive Bias Mother Nature Receptive Preconceived Notions Shedding Light

Author:Luther Burbank

“A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.”

Knows Facts Problem Found Simple Opinion Understood Prejudice

Author:Charles Kettering

“It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause.”

Found Causes Taken Humility Prejudice Envy Arrogant Modesty Positively Hurtful

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.”

Mind Ideas Facts Feelings Found Given Common Century Periods Prejudice Twentieth Century

Book:Human Work

Source: Human Work

“A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it. The fight against prejudice is an inevitable process. Man has been warring against his own lower nature ever since he found out he had one, and the battle against intolerance is part of the same old struggle between good and evil that has preoccupied us ever since we gave up swinging from trees.”

Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

“We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture”

Culture Found Prejudice Greed Bigotry

Author:Jacque Fresco

“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”

“The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.”

Humans Found Causes Education Teacher Childhood Prejudice Errors Chiefs Human Error

Author:Rene Descartes

“After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready to abandon it at the slightest provocation. should this certainty be lacking, we must tell ourselves that nothing is accomplished in warfare without daring; that the nature of war certainly does not let us see at all times where we are going; that what is probable will always be probable though at the moment it may not seem so; and finally, that we cannot be readily ruined by a single error, if we have made reasonable preparations.”

“Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race. And my impression, as I travel around the country, is that that's the kind of country that most people want, as well, and that we all have prejudice, we all have certain suspicions or stereotypes about people who are different from us, whether it's religious or racial or ethnic, but what I think I found in the American people, I think there's a core decency there, where if they take the time, if they get the time to know individuals, then they want to judge those individuals by their character.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Wells Kind Different Country Character Certain Found Individual Goal Religious Race Judging Racism Prejudice Core Impression Divided Suspicion Stereotype Decency

Author:Barack Obama

“But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where they are the most accommodating, least rigid, least severe, most vague, and ready to come to easy terms with the prejudices and weaknesses of the modern world. Let everyone have the courage to look deeply into himself and to see what it is that he really wants.”

World Want Looks Reason Found Easy Term Religious Modern Ready Weakness Prejudice Vague Severe Eastern Modern World Religious Texts

Author:Julius Evola

“As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to the moment. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are tantalizing early prototypes for a Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy ideal of lovers as brainy, passionate sparring partners. That the world teems with fantasies of Mr. Darcy and his ilk there is no doubt. How many of his type are to be found outside the pages of a novel, however, is another matter.”

“This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes, instead of Refracting ones, hath thereupon presented the curious world with an Essay of what may be performed by such Telescopes; by which it is found, that Telescopical Tubes may be considerably shortened without prejudice to their magnifiying effect. On his invention of the catadioptrical telescope, as he communicated to the Royal Society.”

Thinking World May Lasts Science Found Given Causes Effects Accounts Prejudice Invention Curious Excellent Mathematician Royal Essays Reflecting Tubes Transactions Telescopes February

Author:Isaac Newton

“The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.”

Found Tvs Prejudice Advertising Agency Advertising Agencies

Author:Nat King Cole

“I have found Jews to be more broad-minded than most whites on issues of race and politics, perhaps because they themselves have historically been victims of prejudice.”

Found Race Issues Prejudice Victim Jew Broads

Book:Long Walk To Freedom

Source: Long Walk To Freedom

“The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.”

Source: Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder