Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.
No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it representative of a whole class.
Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there
Why is our own participation in scapegoating so difficult to perceive and the participation of others so easy? To us, our fears and prejudices never appear as such because they determine our vision of people we despise, we fear, and against whom we discriminate.
The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
We see only what we know.
Don't classify me, read me.
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
The more opinions you have, the less you see.
If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.
We all see only that which we are trained to see.
Almost every person that I had a preconception of, I was wrong. With Edward Teller, I was right. He was an autocrat and a technocrat, with no feeling for humanity.
One does one's thinking before one knows what one is to think about.
I, like many people, had some sort of preconception about Madonna. One of the preconceptions was that she had the extraordinary work ethic, which turned out to be absolutely true.
The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions.
Concepts antedate facts.
I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.
I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.
One of the greatest enemies to vision is sight!
