Quotes of Predilection - somelinesforyou

“ It is never too late to give up your prejudices. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ I don't think I've got bad taste. I've got no taste. ”

- Graham Norton

“ Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them. ”

- Edward R. Murrow

“ Vegetarians taste better. ”

- Unknown

“ Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. ”

- Lord Chesterfield

“ Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. ”

- Unknown

“ Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. ”

- Unknown

“ There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. ”

- William James

“ The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices. ”

- Isaac Watts

“ We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility. ”

- Mark Twain

“ A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices. ”

- William James

“ I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ I have very old-fashioned tastes. ”

- Jerry Hall

“ It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently. ”

- Jacobi

“ Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. ”

- Babe Ruth

“ A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ”

- William James

“ Prejudices are what fools use for reason. ”

- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

“ Prejudices are what fools use for reason. ”

- Voltaire

“ He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices. ”

- Carlo Goldoni

“ One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. ”

- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

“ It is never too late to give up our prejudices. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. ”

- Luther Burbank

“ I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out. ”

- Lord Jeffrey

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

- George Bancroft

“ I'm quite sure that... I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being — that is enough for me he can't be any worse. ”

- Mark Twain
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