Prejudices

Examples

• She persisted until she finally conquered the elephant's prejudices, and now they are inseparable friends. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Mamma thought the dear too young to be taught to conquer his prejudices, but Papa believed that it never was too soon to learn obedience. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• How the fatigues and annoyances of travel fill one with bitter prejudices sometimes! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• So debating becomes a way of confirming your own prejudices; it is never, never in any debate I have suffered through, a search for understanding from the angles of two differing insights. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The prejudices of some political writers against shopkeepers and tradesmen are altogether without foundation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• More is as free as Plato from the prejudices of his age, and far more tolerant. Plato. The Republic.
• The worst thing about stubbornness of mind, about prejudices, is that they arrest development; they shut the mind off from new stimuli. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Anybody can take a fling at poor old Mr. Rockefeller, but the great mass of average citizens (to which none of us belongs) must be left in undisturbed possession of its prejudices. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• At ease with him, I could defend my creed and faith in my own fashion; in some degree I could lull his prejudices. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But the petition was already breathed, nor could all the narrow prejudices of her sect induce Rebecca to wish it recalled. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The treatment he was subjected to in order to overcome his prejudices was summary and effective. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I went straight to Judy Trenor; she has fewer prejudices than the others, and besides she's always hated Bertha Dorset. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Not only the prejudices of the public, but, what is much more unconquerable, the private interests of many individuals, irresistibly oppose it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Presently the dissensions of the schools let in the superstitions and prejudices of the city mob to scholastic affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For one item suppressed out of respect for a railroad or a bank, nine are rejected because of the prejudices of the public. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But let them all be represented in one room by men who are professionally interested in their constituency's prejudices and what would you accomplish but a deepening of the cleavages? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But there's the bell; so, Cousin, let us for a while lay aside our sectional prejudices, and come out to dinner. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Have Hartright's perfectly intelligible prejudices infected me without my suspecting their influence? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is a little too hard on me to expect that my course in life is to be hampered by prejudices which I think ridiculous. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But the misfortune of speaking with bitterness is a most natural consequence of the prejudices I had been encouraging. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It is in _youth_ that we plant our chief habits and prejudices; it is in youth that we take our party as to profession, pursuits, and matrimony. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Are there reasons why Skimpole, not being warped by prejudices, should accept it? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And it may not be irrelevant to inquire, whether similar prejudices do not prevail to some extent even among ourselves. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But he had also the prejudices and scrupulous timidity of his persecuted people, and those were to be conquered. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• You will make allowance for his prejudices, I am sure, if you and he happen to meet? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• This statute, however, authorises in some measure two very absurd popular prejudices. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In the past six years there must have been a destruction of fixed ideas, prejudices, and mental limitations unparalleled in all history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I am not warped by prejudices, as an Italian baby is by bandages. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Her prejudices, I trust, are not so strong as they were. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• As to your small maxims, your narrow rules, your little prejudices, aversions, dogmas, bundle them off. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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