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“By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.”

World Self Imagination Identity Citizens Prejudice Locals Division Invited Frontiers Horseback

Author:Alain de Botton

“They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.”

Thinking Imagination Prejudice Harm Phantoms

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

Love Moments Funny Women Imagination Romantic Prejudice Admiration Rapids Jane Matrimony Sweet Love Cute Love Pride And Prejudice Pride Mrs Bennet

Book:Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

“Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.”

Writing Imagination Quality Prejudice Historian Biographies

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.”

Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings

“The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice. Vice is Error, Confusion, and false Reasoning; and all Truth is more or less opposite to it. Besides, Mathematical Studies may serve for a pleasant Entertainment for those Hours which young Men are apt to throw away upon their Vices; the Delightfulness of them being such as to make Solitude not only easy, but desirable.”

Source: An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning: In a Letter from a Gentleman in the City, to His Friend at Oxford

“My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.”

Age Imagination Views Optimism Prejudice Etc Bias

Author:Abdul Kalam

“When we enter a new situation in life and are confronted by a new person, we bring with us the prejudices of the past and our previous experiences of people. These prejudices we project upon the new person. Indeed, getting to know a person is largely a matter of withdrawing projections; of dispelling the smoke screen of what we imagine he is like and replacing it with the reality of what he is actually like.”

People Knows Persons Matter Reality Past Imagination Situation Imagine Projects Prejudice Screens Smoke Projection Withdrawing New Situations Situations In Life Dispelling

Author:Karl Popper

“I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.”

Persons Beautiful Imagination Prejudice Extraordinary Comic Proportion Mum Amusing Extravagant Extraordinary Person

Author:Andrew Motion

“Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.”

People Long Has Beens Imagination Prejudice Destroyed

Author:Ernest Dimnet

“The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.”

Mind God Religion Faith Passion Hope Imagination Prejudice Mathematics Errors Charm Faith In God

Author:John Arbuthnot

“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.”

Source: Healology