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“There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.”

Men May Turns Wise Fool Advantage Prejudice Accidents Fortunate Unfortunate

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.”

Wise Prejudice Innovation Rail Prevailing Narrow-minded Vindication Vehemence

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capable of examining his work. Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude; and Phocion, you know, always suspected himself of some blunder when he was attended with the applauses of the populace.”

Ifs Knows Men Looks Wise Judgment Capable Prejudice Stronger Kingdoms Breasts Falsehood Multitudes Applause Select Examining Blunders Presumption

Book:The Letters of David Hume: 1727-1765

Source: The Letters of David Hume: 1727-1765

“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

“When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to that rule, unless it call upon us to do something that is actually wrong. One should not offend the prejudices of the world, even if one is quite sure that they are prejudices.”

Ifs World Should Practice Wise Society Prejudice Fixed

Book:The Belton Estate

Source: The Belton Estate

“The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.”

Firsts Wisdom Interest Wise Ignorance Prejudice Adopted

Author:George Bancroft

“O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.”

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Author:William Penn

“The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.”

Persons Age Life Is Time Opinion Wise Prejudice Aging Cures Folly Latter Wise Person

Author:Jonathan Swift

“O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many judge what the gospel ought to be, but do not actually enquire as to what it is. They do not come to the Bible to obtain their views of religion, but they open that Book to find texts to suit the opinions which they bring to it. They are not open to the honest force of truth, and therefore are not saved by it.”

Men Has Beens Book Might Force Views Opinion Wise Honest Judging Fool Ought Prejudice Saved Destroyed Suits Might Have Been

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.”

Wisdom Natural Justice Wise Diversity Prejudice Social Justice Dependent Antipathy

Book:THE

Source: THE

“Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.”

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Author:Mary Browne

“... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased from the open country, these robbers fly into the forest, and lie in wait to break in upon every unguarded avenue of the mind, and overwhelm it with religious fears and prejudices. ... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom.”

Source: An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion

“No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.”

Ifs Men Should May Ends Certain Parent Wise Prove Prejudice Awe Contempt Wiser

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and clichés and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.”

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Author:Edward Bernays

“WONDERLAND It is a person's unquenchable thirst for wonder That sets them on their initial quest for truth. The more doors you open, the smaller you become. The more places you see and the more people you meet, The greater your curiosity grows. The greater your curiosity, the more you will wander. The more you wander, the greater the wonder. The more you quench your thirst for wonder, The more you drink from the cup of life. The more you see and experience, the closer to truth you become. The more languages you learn, the more truths you can unravel. And the more countries you travel, the greater your understanding. And the greater your understanding, the less you see differences. And the more knowledge you gain, the wider your perspective, And the wider your perspective, the lesser your ignorance. Hence, the more wisdom you gain, the smaller you feel. And the smaller you feel, the greater you become. The more you see, the more you love -- The more you love, the less walls you see. The more doors you are willing to open, The less close-minded you will be. The more open-minded you are, The more open your heart. And the more open your heart, The more you will be able to Send and receive -- Truth and TRUE Unconditional LOVE.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem