Robert Byrne Quotes

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

When somebody's different, it's so easy to dismiss what people say because of what they look like. They really want to judge the book by its cover.

Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

I think any stereotyping is too much.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

I think in our society we too often choose the people we associate with based on our own hasty judgments.