Prejudice Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old prejudice quotes, prejudice sayings, and prejudice proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together. Ralph W. Sockman
Our prejudices are like physical infirmities - we cannot do what they prevent us from doing. John Lancaster Spalding
Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on. unknown
I think people always believe what they want to believe, don't you? Lillian Hellman
Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds. William McChesney Martin
Bigotry is the sacred disease. Heraclitus
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand Rabindranath Tagore
Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin. Henry Wheeler Shaw
The prejudices of men emanate from the mind, and may be overcome; the prejudices of women emanate from the heart and are impregnable. Jean Baptiste de Boyer
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
When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue. Madame De Stael
Prejudices are the props of civilization. Andre Gide
Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd. Voltaire
Prejudice is the twin of illiberality. G. D. Prentice
Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason. William Hazlitt
Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain. Aubrey de Vere
Rigid judgmental opinions can block descent of Spirit's pinions. Saiom Shriver
Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks. H. W. SHAW
Prejudice is an equivocal term; and may as well mean right opinions taken upon trust and deeply rooted in the mind, as false and absurd opinions so derived, and grown into it. Richard Hurd
Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way. Shaftesbury
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Racism is man’s gravest threat to man the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. Abraham Joshua Heschel
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. Albert Einstein
It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom. Albert Einstein
Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike. Ban Ki-moon
The air is the only place free from prejudice. Bessie Coleman
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive. Blaise Pascal
Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail. Brandon Sanderson
Racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at. Chris Crutcher
Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life. Colleen Hoover