George Henry Lewes Quotes

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

So long as opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses instability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.

Nothing hath an uglier Look to us than Reason, when it is not of our side.

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

I stare at her. I've always known that it's impossible to argue with Belinda, not because she's particularly good at it, but because she's so bad at it- that there is no common ground to work from. She simply sees the world she wants to see it and no amount of logic can change her mind.

I hate perception. There's far too much of it in football

When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.

Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless.

Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.

Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.

I've told you before. You shouldn't judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions.

No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side.

...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.

People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever. People are bad.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

I think it's just easier for people to put you in a box or a lane because you look similar. I think that's unfair for anybody in any situation.

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance

It's foolish to be prejudiced. There are so many reasons to hate people on an individual basis.