John Locke book An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Book IV, Ch. 7, sec. 11
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
“He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kind of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.”
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 438.
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