Anna Letitia Barbauld Quotes

Because we're brought into the world or educated in a certain way, we're trained to accept the world in a certain way.

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.

Man is a child of his environment.

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.

For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.

I'm a product of my environment.

A large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. In other words, it is tradition—besides inherited aptitudes and qualities—which makes us what we are. We but rarely reflect how relatively small as compared with the powerful influence of tradition is the influence of our conscious thought upon our conduct and convictions.

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.

There'll always be that prep in me that I can't seem to get rid of.

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

Education helps one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else.

There's a reason why young people think what they think. They are taught it. In many cases when they learn at home is erased or countered or overcome.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.