Best prejudice & my-own Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now what am I to believe- the reasoning of others or my own experience? Truth is what the soul has seen and experienced; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.”

Believe Doe Soul Reason God My Own Opinion Saws Truth Is Prejudice Appearance Reasoning Convincing

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.”

People Ifs Ideas Country Philosophy Home Young Natural My Own Quality Opinion Prejudice Intelligent Philosophical China Chinese Creeds Sophistication Homesick Naivete

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.”

Mind Children I Can Matter Reason Eye Religion Religious My Own Education Judgment Prejudice Instruction Casting Filling

Book:Works: Account of His Life and Letters

Source: Works: Account of His Life and Letters

“I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.”

Self Matter Politics My Own Opinion Politician Prejudice Dependent Offended Presumption Scorned

Book:The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament: As Exemplified in the History of the Life of William Cobbett, Member for Oldham

Source: The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament: As Exemplified in the History of the Life of William Cobbett, Member for Oldham

“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

“If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.”

Ifs Knows Way I Can Three Process My Own Listening Judgment Empty Prejudice Come Up Hearing Interviews Exhausted

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”

Persons My Own Opinion Prejudice Manners

Book:Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.”

Thinking Knows Realizing My Own Half Example Prejudice Stupidity

Book:Oracle Night: A Novel

Source: Oracle Night: A Novel

“There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others-”

Way Want Heart Suffering Courses My Own Deals Periods Prejudice Possession Despondency

Book:The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

“So do I wish I was to be king? That is not a question I ask myself. I ask myself, Would I be a good king? Would I be quick witted and generous of spirit and full of that boundless energy? Or would I be clumsy and stupid and dulled by my own prejudices? I try to be a good man, since I am alive at all, and hope that that teaches me what I would need to know if I was ever faced with a higher challenge.”

Ifs Knows Men Needs Trying Spirit Asks Energy Wish Challenges My Own Teach Alive Stupid Kings Higher Prejudice Generous Good Man Boundless Clumsy I Am Alive Good Kings Quick Witted

Author:Sharon Shinn

“My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!”

Children Law My Own Brother Prejudice My Children In-laws Brother In Law

Author:Dorothy Kilgallen

“In my own prejudice.. I would have of a poet...whose worlds would not be too esoteric..fond of talking....capable of pity and laughter..appreciative of womem..involved in personal relationships...susceptible to physical impressions”

World My Own Talking Poet Involved Capable Laughter Prejudice Impression Pity Susceptible Personal Relationships Esoteric Appreciative

Author:Louis MacNeice

“When I started out, Jiu-Jitsu was really an elite thing in Brazil, and there was some prejudice towards poorer kids, so I had to learn things on my own. Some of my neighbours started doing Jiu-Jitsu, so I started watching it, and then started rolling with them. It wasn’t organized training, but it was better than nothing.”

Kids My Own Training Prejudice Organized Elites Rolling Neighbour Brazil Jiu Jitsu

Author:Anderson Silva

“I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.”

People Important My Own Views Path Cutting Mountain Prejudice Ran Things To Do Climbing Climbing Up

Book:The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings

Source: The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings

“I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.”

Source: The fight against war

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