
“Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.”
Le préjugé est une opinion sans jugement.
"Prejudices" (1764)
Citas, Dictionnaire philosophique (1764)
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
“Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.”
Le préjugé est une opinion sans jugement.
"Prejudices" (1764)
Citas, Dictionnaire philosophique (1764)
Interview with the New York Times (29 October 1973)
Other speeches and writings
"Mediasaurus: The decline of conventional media" http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/speeches_quote02.html - Speech at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. (7 April 1993)
Context: We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionist. We are pro-private sector or pro-big government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us holds these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.
Letter to Thomas Moore (9 April 1814).
Context: My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
“Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.”
Letter to John Benson (5 October 1770); published in Wesley's Select Letters (1837), p. 207
General sources
Context: Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. It is our part, by religion and reason joined, to counteract them all we can.
“Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.”
2 October 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“The English don't have opinions about the Irish. They have prejudices.”
The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert
“The prejudiced and obstinate man does not so much hold opinions, as his opinions hold him.”
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 438.