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.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. E. B. White
Even if prejudice magically ceased today, the burden of the past would remain. Evelyn B. Pluhar
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
Criticism is prejudice made plausible. H. L. Mencken
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common they both begin where reason ends. Harper Lee
The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor on in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out. Henry St. John Bolingbroke
Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition. Jasper Fforde
Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason. John Wesley
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. Joseph Addison
Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated. Kofi Annan
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking. Leo Tolstoy
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. Lillian Hellman
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. Mahatma Gandhi
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed. Marcus Aurelius
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Mark Twain
That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it. Mark Twain
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. Mark Twain
Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it. Muhammad Ali
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background or his religion. People learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. Nelson Mandela
Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it. Romain Rolland
Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason. Russell Kirk
You reason well, and your wit is bold, but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Bram Stoker
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices just recognize them. Edward R. Murrow