Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lance Ito

The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.

Nicolas Malebranche

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

Paulo Coelho

When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous.

Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on.

Lavrenti Lopes

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.

Ron Fournier

Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.

Tom Peters

Good managers have a bias for action.

Steven Erikson

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

Tryon Edwards

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

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.

Samuel Johnson

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.

Rob Mariano

I am biased to my show as a whole but it is still very entertaining.

Richard Dawkins

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

Samuel Johnson

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

Vladimir Lenin

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

Walter Cronkite

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

Herbert Spencer

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

Herman Melville

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

Jean Stapleton

Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every word is a prejudice.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All words are prejudices.

George R. R. Martin

The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.

Jane Porter

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

Ernestine Rose

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

Gloria Steinem

Prejudice marks a mental landmine.

James Branch Cabell

What am I that I am called upon to have prejudices concerning the universe?

James Boswell

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

Isaac Barrow

Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

Ellen Goodman

She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.

Napoleon Hill

What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.