The multitude are ruled by prejudices. [ Voltaire ]
Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd. [ Voltaire ]
Certain names always awake certain prejudices. [ Joseph Roux ]
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. [ Thoreau ]
All our wisdom consists of but servile prejudices. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
Better a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
Women have fewer vices than men; but they have stronger prejudices. [ Dr. J. V. C. Smith ]
Man should place himself above prejudices, and woman should submit to them. [ Mme. Necker ]
People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances. [ Hamerton ]
Superstitions, errors, and prejudices are cobwebs continually woven in shallow brains. [ De Finod ]
It is the work of a philosopher to be every day subduing his passions and laying aside his prejudices. [ Addison ]
The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [ Cicero ]
Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times? [ Montaigne ]
The prejudices of men emanate from the mind, and may be overcome; the prejudices of women emanate from the heart, and are impregnable.
To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned. [ Johnson ]
A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page. [ Willmott ]
All our opinions, sentiments, principles, prejudices, religious beliefs, are really but the result of birthplace: how different would they be, had we been born and reared at the antipodes of our respective lands. [ De Finod ]
Philosophers and men of letters have done more for mankind than Orpheus, Hercules, or Theseus; for it is more meritorious and more difficult to wean men from their prejudices than to civilize the barbarian: It is harder to correct than to instruct. [ Voltaire ]