William Hazlitt Quotes

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

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

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

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

Prejudices save time.

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

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

Most men … can seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty — conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

I thought Christians were walking idiots.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!