Quotes of Predisposition - somelinesforyou

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

- Henry David Thoreau

“ 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

“ I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. ”

- W. C. Fields

“ I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. ”

- W.C. Fields

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

- William James

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

- Samuel Johnson

“ 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

“ 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

“ I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. ”

- W. C. Fields

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

- Luther Burbank

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Jacobi

“ The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. ”

- Walter Lippmann

“ 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

“ Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out. ”

- Paul Kagame

“ Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates it's own objects: is this not also true of fear? ”

- Elizabeth Bowen

“ 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

“ Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ I have no race prejudice. I think I have no color prejudices or 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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