It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

Most people know no other way of judging mens worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld