Karl Popper Quote on Prejudices and Getting to Know People

„When we enter a new situation in life and are confronted by a new person, we bring with us the prejudices of the past and our previous experiences of people. These prejudices we project upon the new person. Indeed, getting to know a person is largely a matter of withdrawing projections; of dispelling the smoke screen of what we imagine he is like and replacing it with the reality of what he is actually like.“

Karl PopperKarl Popper's quote explains how we project prejudices on new people and how true acquaintance overcomes them.
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Karl Popper was an Austrian-British philosopher and the founder of critical rationalism.

This quote by Karl Popper emphasizes how personal prejudices influence our perception of new people and how true acquaintance means overcoming these projections.


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Karl Popper quote about overcoming prejudices and getting to know people

Sir Karl Raimund Popper (1902–1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher. Through his work in the philosophy of knowledge and science, as well as in social, historical, and political philosophy, he shaped critical rationalism. He also served as a professor of logic and scientific methods.

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