Charles Lamb Quotes

No man can see his own prejudices.

My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me.

The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is 'mine,' and it is not a general one, but is - 'unique,' as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!

It may be unfair of me but I do feel I know it.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

I can explain my body and my brain, but there's something more. I can't explain my own existence - what makes me a unique human being.

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

Memory is often less about truth than about what we want it to be.

Nobody ever accused me of being objective.

We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices.

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.

People are always going to say what they want to say and believe what they want to believe, but that's the bottom line.

What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream" - that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?

You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.

A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it.

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the reasons are never as ‘reasonable' as we like to think they are.

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

As we are, so we see.