Best prejudice & given Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice.”

“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

“The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person - things he sees and hears and reads, people he talks to, and places he visits. Any given reformer must be content to take a small and obscure place in a chain of cumulative pressures.”

People Persons Long Happens Given Results Thousand Long Time Prejudice Pressure Chains Obscure Reformers Modification Cumulative

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

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

“In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize.”

Source: Phenomenology of Spirit

“Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.”

Ifs Trying Wells Helping Use Able Names Speak Given My Own Pleasure Talent Duty Reader Benefits Prejudice Humble Endeavour

Author:Anne Bronte

“Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear... Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable not for the rightness but uprightness of the decision.”

Ifs Mind Reason Facts Given Heaven Decision Existence Opinion Weak Prejudice Seats Shakes Boldness Homage Existence Of God Oracles Tribunals Blindfolded Weak Minds Uprightness

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“...the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative symbol of its mentality- the projection of its conflicts, prejudice and specific ways of double-think onto the graceful sky.”

Thinking Way Age Given Results Sky Development Conflict Prejudice Symbols Mentality Imaginative Projection Cosmology

Author:Arthur Koestler

“The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.”

Mean Given Church Race Prejudice Absolutes Democratic

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“I'm aware of what you've done for me, and I'm not ungrateful. I appreciate that you actually showed yourself to be greater than your prejudices and have given me a chance here. But I don't want you for my lover, and you're not my father.”

Want Done Father Given Chance Greater Lovers Appreciate Prejudice Ungrateful My Lover

Author:Steig Larsson

“The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.”

Writing Given Interest History Generations Prejudice Historiography Writing History

Author:John Hope Franklin

“We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that God is a just and righteous God, and demands righteousness of his children, and demands nothing else. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is our Father. It is Israel who, in bringing us the divine law, has laid the foundation of liberty.”

“At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.”

Moments Given Opinion Prejudice Chaos Superstitions Public Opinion Misinformation

Book:Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)

Source: Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)

“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

“I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.”

Believe War States Reason Able Past Given Decision United United States Prejudice Iraq Comment Bias Drs Rice Predetermined Past Decisions

Author:Daniel Kahikina Akaka

“At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the affection and understanding of his family. Anything and everything else he creates are insubstantial; they are ships given over to the mercy of the winds and tides of prejudice. but the family is an everlasting anchorage, a quiet harbor where a man's ships can be left to swing to the moorings of pride and loyalty.”

Men Two Ends Matter Left Given Understanding Wind Pride Quiet Mercy Prejudice Affection Loyalty Ships Two Things Swings Tides Everlasting Harbors Anything And Everything

Book:Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

Source: Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

“The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for as he thinketh within himself, so is he. Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.”

Thinking Men World Way Character Body Given Journey Objects Prejudice Affair Glorious Mist

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

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