The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

  • -- Walter Lippmann 沃尔特·利普曼

漫不经心的人倾向于挑选或偶然发现一个支持或反对其偏见的样本,然后使其成为整个阶级的代表。

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

旅行对于偏见、偏执和狭隘的思想来说是致命的,我们许多人都非常需要旅行。一个人的一生不可能只在地球的一个小角落里郁郁葱葱地生长,就能获得对人和事的广泛、健康、宽容的看法。

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

历史大多是猜测;剩下的就是偏见。