“We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.” PeopleThinkingWorldFactsDiesViewsEffortOppositesPrejudiceTendenciesConform Book:Mortals and Others Source: Mortals and Others
“The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.” PartyTeachingWorstEffectsPrejudiceRegardTendenciesUnworthyOpposing Author:Dorothea Brande
“Our culture has a tendency to pigeonhole people and to try to tear down anybody who's breaking out of our comfort zone. That's why we get into these cultural ruts that end up being destructive prejudices. But breaking out of that comfort zone is the most rewarding thing you can do, in your life. I do my best to push myself, when I can.” PeopleTryingI CanEndsCultureCan DoTearsComfortPrejudiceTendenciesDestructiveZoneComfort ZoneRuts Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication. He then wants to say everything, which is the wrong tendency of young geniuses or the right prejudice of old bunglers. Thus, he fails to recognize the value and dignity of self-restraint, which is indeed for both the artist and the man the first and the last, the most necessary and the highest goal.” MenWantMindFirstsLongSelfStatesLastsYoungPurposeArtistValuesGoalFailingHe ManCommunicationGeniusHighestDignityPrejudiceRemainsInspiredTendenciesState Of MindRestraintSelf Restraint Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“There's a tendency to treat anyone with a physical disability as inspiring. I call it a pedestal of prejudice, in that you're lifting people up to dismiss them. My whole thing is bringing us down to everyone else's level and saying we're all the same. The struggle is the same.” PeopleWholeLevelsStruggleTreatsPrejudiceTendenciesDisabilityLiftingPedestal Author:Zach Anner
“The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.” MindWholeClassSupportDiversityPicksPrejudiceSocial JusticeTendenciesRepresentativesCasualSampleStumble Upon Book:Public Opinion Source: Public Opinion
“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.” ChildrenSelfDonePassionEvilParentSubjectsCrimeHabitPrejudiceMiseryParentingTendenciesYour ChildrenReasoningPatrioticEducateSelf ControlAbolishCrimes Of Passion Author:Benjamin Franklin
“Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.” WantHumansHuman BeingsPoorSubjectsPrejudiceProfoundTendenciesSuperstitionsBias Author:M. Scott Peck
“Be respectful to others as you grow... If we lack respect for one group, then there is a tendency for that attitude to spread. It becomes infectious and no one becomes safe from the ravages of prejudice.” IfsGrowsAttitudeGroupsSafeRespectPrejudiceSpreadTendenciesRespectfulBe Respectful Author:Walter Annenberg
“How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us - are arrested developments, calcified tendencies, buds of promise that should have lifted a branch up into the sunny day with fruit; and flowers to delight the heart of men, but now all grown hard, petrified, for want of culture and a congenial soil and climate.” MenWantShouldHumansHeartHardCultureHuman NatureTearsFlowerDevelopmentPromiseShould HavePrejudiceClimateFruitDelightWoundsTendenciesBranchesSoilDisgustingArrestedConceitSunnyThornsBudLifelessSunny Day Author:John Burroughs