Beauty is a delightful prejudice. [ Theocritus ]

Prejudice is the reason of fools. [ Voltaire ]

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. [ Hazlitt ]

The multitude are ruled by prejudices. [ Voltaire ]

All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [ Pope ]

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality. [ G. D. Prentice ]

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd. [ Voltaire ]

He hears but half who hears one party only. [ Eschylus ]

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. [ Wendell Phillips ]

An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Ignorance is less distant from truth than prejudice. [ Diderot ]

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice. [ Diderot ]

Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks. [ Duchess d'Abrantes ]

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed. [ Madame Necker ]

Remember, when the judgment Is weak the prejudice is strong. [ Kane O'Hara ]

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart. [ Zimmermann ]

When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Prejudice, vanity, calculation: these are what govern the world. [ Chamfort ]

Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain. [ Aubrey de Vere ]

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. [ J. Stuart Mill ]

Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason. [ Hazlitt ]

Antiquity cannot privilege an error, nor novelty prejudice a truth. [ Proverb ]

Women have fewer vices than men; but they have stronger prejudices. [ Dr. J. V. C. Smith ]

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances. [ Hamerton ]

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. [ Jeffrey ]

Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us. [ Abraham Coles ]

How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see him but I am heart-burned an hour after. [ William Shakespeare ]

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice. [ Locke ]

The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [ Cicero ]

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world and ignorance of mankind. [ Addison ]

To all intents and purposes, he who will not open his eyes is, for the present, as blind as he who cannot. [ South ]

Human nature is so constituted that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own. [ Terence ]

The greatest friend of Truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

We seldom find persons whom we acknowledge to be possessed of good sense, except those who agree with us in opinion. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions. [ Macaulay ]

Nothing has wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal. [ Barrow ]

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times? [ Montaigne ]

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 ]

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm: they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination. [ La Bruyere ]

Slander and detraction can have no influence, can make no impression, upon the righteous Judge above. None to thy prejudice, but a sad and fatal one to their own. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

The mathematics are friends to religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity or imagination, and purge the mind from error and prejudice. [ Arbuthnot ]

Extreme avarice is nearly always mistaken; there is no passion which is oftener further away from its mark, nor upon which the present has so much power to the prejudice of the future. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Without discretion learning is pedantry and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness. The best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. [ Addison ]

Were a whole nation to start upon a new career of education, with mature faculties and minds free from prepossession or prejudice, how much would be quickly abandoned that is now most stubbornly cherished! [ Chatfield ]

Sydney Smith playfully says that commonsense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs. [ Whipple ]

Commonsense is science exactly so far as it fulfils the ideal of commonsense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. [ Huxley ]

Nature's noblemen are everywhere, - in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman. [ Willis ]

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Domitian said, that nothing was more grateful; Aristotle afirmed that beauty was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature, and Ovid, alluding to him, calls it a favor bestowed by the gods. [ From the Italian ]

Threescore years and ten! It is the Scriptural statute of limitations. After that, you owe no active duties; for you the strenuous life is over. You are a time-expired man, to use Kipling's military phrase: You have served your term, well or less well, and you are mustered out. You are become an honorary member of the republic, you are emancipated, compulsions are not for you, nor any bugle-tail but lights out. You pay the time-worn duty bills if you choose, or decline if you prefer - and without prejudice - for they are not legally collectable. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]