Quotes on “prejudice”

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.