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“Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.”

“I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up, and bearing with all their faults, follies, prejudices and mistakes until he can convince them that he is right.”

Mean Real Mistake Atheism Mankind Determination Prejudice Faults Positive Atheism Folly Convince Sensible

Book:Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

“it is a mistake to talk of the twilight of age, or the blurred sight of old people. The long day grows clearer at its close, and the petty fogs of prejudice which rose between us and our fellows in youth melt away as the sun goes down. At last we see God's creatures as they are.”

People Long Age Lasts Grows Mistake Sun Youth Creatures Sight Prejudice Fellows Rose Old Age Twilight Fog Old People Petty Long Day

Book:Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

Source: Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

“None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice.”

Mistake Wise Prejudice Acknowledge Mistaken

Author:Isaac Barrow

“An aspect of 'post-modern' approach to history is to include the mistakes and the prejudices of the era, without modernizing them or 'correcting' them according to our modern ideals.”

Mistake Modern Approach Aspect Ideals Prejudice Eras Posts Correcting

Author:Sean Michael Wilson

“Mistakes and prejudices are as interesting as anything else. They reveal a lot about the mind set and culture of the time under consideration.”

Mind Culture Interesting Mistake Prejudice Consideration Mind Set

Author:Sean Michael Wilson

“The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.”

Made Literature Race Mistake Worst Stupid Racism Prejudice Anti Semitism

Author:Ezra Pound

“God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He had fingers and toes, confusion, sexual feelings, crazy human internal processes. He had the same prejudices as the rest of his tribe: he had to learn that the Canaanite woman was a person. He had to suffer the hardships and tedium and setbacks of being a regular person. If he hadn't the incarnation would mean nothing.”

Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign — the divine minus.”

Should Wells Desire Courses Mistake Divine Prejudice Absolutes Ridiculous Plus Torment Minus

Book:We

Source: We

“Every day we all make mistakes ourselves, but, and we all sometimes have some...harbor some prejudices and all, but we have to know in our heart it's wrong. And we all want to remember that we are connected. And that any kind of racism is wrong.”

Knows Want Heart Kind Sometimes Remember Mistake Racism Prejudice Connected Making Mistakes Harbors We All Make Mistakes

Author:Russell Simmons