“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18”
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“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18”
“Prejudices are what fools use for reason”
“Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice”
“Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind”
“It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best to at least rearrange their prejudices once in a while”
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones”
“To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eye”
“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.”
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”