Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Discrimination Quotes, Prejudice Quotes

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of...

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of...

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary...

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary...

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm,...

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm,...

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those...

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those...

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them...

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them...

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect,...

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect,...

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of...

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of...

If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is...

If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is...

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of...

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of...

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done,...

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done,...

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should...

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should...

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong...

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong...

There are few doors through which liberality, joined with good humor, cannot find its way.

There are few doors through which liberality, joined with good humor, cannot find its way.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first...

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first...