To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.
It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.
A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer.
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.
If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said. . . One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate
Our culture has a tendency to pigeonhole people and to try to tear down anybody who's breaking out of our comfort zone. That's why we get into these cultural ruts that end up being destructive prejudices. But breaking out of that comfort zone is the most rewarding thing you can do, in your life. I do my best to push myself, when I can.
Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory. . .
The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.
You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.
Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.
All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension.
Most people don't think, they just rearrange their prejudices.
Certain names always awake certain prejudices.
Meditation means removing all your prejudices, putting all your conclusions aside, seeing without any hindrance, seeing without any curtains, seeing clearly without any mediation of any thought, seeing without Buddha standing between you and reality, or Krishna, or Christ.
There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.
I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.
I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.
Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.
Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many events are uncaused in any conventional sense of the word. Perhaps our gut feeling that it cannot be so reflects only our hopes and prejudices, our desperate striving to make sense of a complex and confusing world, and not the ways of nature.