Prejudice
Foresight.
An opinion or judgment formed without due examination; prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge.
A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment.
Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.
To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman.
To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause.
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Prejudice Quotations
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
Charles Dickens
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
Herbert Spencer
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
Ambrose Bierce
Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
Eric Hoffer
The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Clint Eastwood
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Clint Eastwood
Prejudice Translations
prejudice in Danish is fordom
prejudice in Dutch is vooroordeel, vooringenomenheid
prejudice in German is Vorurteil, Vorurteil, Schaden
prejudice in Italian is pregiudizio
prejudice in Portuguese is preconceito
prejudice in Spanish is prejuicio, preocupacion
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