Prejudiced Person Quotes & Sayings

Do you think you help people because you are in love with them? Well, I've got news for you. You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person. Take a minute to think about that: You are never in love with anyone, you're in love with your prejudiced idea of that person. — Anthony De Mello

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? — William Butler Yeats

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored. — Danny Boyle

So you see, once a person drops the scales of prejudiced certainty and doubts appear, there is no telling how far a heart can open. — Louise Erdrich

My prayer as you read this book is that you will find comfort for the disappointment of unanswered prayer, but also courage to continue on the epic journey that prayer is. — Gerald L. Sittser

You know
girl stuff.' And by girl stuff, I meant breaking and entering. — Richelle Mead

God's mercies are new every morning. Receive them. — Max Lucado

others find themselves with increasing frequency seeing and hearing something to which those around them are blind and deaf; others again - and perhaps this is the commonest experience of all - begin to recollect with greater and greater clearness that which they have seen or heard on that other plane during sleep. — Charles W. Leadbeater

Words not only reflect a person's thoughts and beliefs, but, through their use, can shape a person's values, beliefs, and actions, making them prejudiced without them even realizing it. That means it's not just the case that actions speak louder than words. It's also true, in this society rife with institutionalized discrimination, that results speak louder than intent. — DaShanne Stokes

Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in shaping how he or she interacts with another person who falls in that stereotyped class. In turn, the tone of their interaction influences the other person's behaviour. The prejudiced person can't see how his prejudice shapes what he "sees" and how he acts. In some sense, if he did, he would no longer be prejudiced. To operate, the "thought" of prejudice must remain hidden to its holder — Peter Senge

Even though I believe a superlative translation can achieve timelessness, that doesn't mean I think other translators shouldn't attempt other versions. The more the better, in the end. — Lydia Davis

If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance. — Gordon Allport

The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world. — Krista Tippett

People change,' Sara said.
'True enough,' Tsukuru said. 'People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither of us knew anything substantial about the other. — Haruki Murakami

These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit song on the charts. — Frank Zappa

Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge. — Bjarke Ingels

The denial of Christ has less to do with facts and more to do with the bent of what a person is prejudiced to conclude. — Ravi Zacharias

Young love sucked. Old love wasn't much easier, but at least you had some scar tissue built up around your heart to make it hurt a little less. — Tere Michaels

We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced. — Mark Twain

Connect by listening well and speaking relevantly without being prejudiced or sarcastic. Learn to listen with your eyes as much as you listen with your ears. Generate interest in the person and subject, that way people will become more interested in you. — Archibald Marwizi

The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person - things he sees and hears and reads, people he talks to, and places he visits. Any given reformer must be content to take a small and obscure place in a chain of cumulative pressures. — Margaret Halsey

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters. — Cato The Elder

You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person. — Anthony De Mello

Under the glitter of their opportunities she saw the poverty of their achievement. — Edith Wharton