The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
Source: In Great Quotations, by George Seldes, 1983.
-- George Bancroft, (Oct 3 1800-1891), US historian, author; His comprehensive 10-vol. History of U.S. Origins and Development caused him to be called the father of American history.