Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. — Mary Browne
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. — Merry Browne
I think the number one thing that clouds us from being able to see reality is that we have preconceived notions of the way it should be. — Naval Ravikant
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. — E. B. White
Prejudices are what fools use for reason. — Voltaire
Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge. — Gordon Allport
Prejudice is an opinion without judgment. — Voltaire
Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past — Prentice Mulford
Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions — Daniel Kahneman
You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about. — Albert Camus
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice. — William Hazlitt
Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder. — Russell L. Ackoff
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind. — Eric Hoffer
A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held. — Georg Cantor
Condemnation before investigation is the highest form of ignorance. — Albert Einstein
Ignorance is brought about by assumption. — T. D. Jakes
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out. — Mary Wollstonecraft
Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. — Wayne Dyer
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Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Preconceived Ideas Quotes
I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them. — Christopher Parker
Emptiness the starting point. — In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty. — Bruce Lee
I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea. — Robert Doisneau
Reality doesn't have any preconceived ideas. You've got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette. You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You've got to do things and not show them. — James Dean
I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story and not a genre or a style. — Xavier Dolan
I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know. — Marion Milner
Thought must never submit, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a preconceived idea, nor to whatever it may be, save to the facts themselves, because, for thought, submission would mean ceasing to be. — Henri Poincare
Nothing breaks down barriers and preconceived ideas about 'Christians and Christianity' more than when we treat people the way Jesus treated His enemies. — Chip Ingram
Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the hands of men with preconceived ideas. — Francis Galton
I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life. — Georg Baselitz
Preconceptions Quotes
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions. — Vera Rubin
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them. — Gordon Allport
I don’t have a preconception of a perfect day, because if I did, then it would ruin the day that I was living. — Naval Ravikant
I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing. — Eva Hesse
I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions. — Garry Winogrand
Once you free your mind about the concept of harmony and of music being correct, you can do whatever you want. So nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do. — Giorgio Moroder
To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false. — Dorothea Lange
I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth. — Clarice Lispector
At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding. — Arthur Frommer
Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour, rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted. — John Towner Williams
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. — Ben Stein
Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey. — Yahoo Serious
If the clinician, as observer, wishes to see things as they really are, he must make a tabula rasa of his mind and proceed without any preconceived notions whatever. — Jean-Martin Charcot
I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude. — Kate Bosworth
Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts. — Barbara Tuchman
I believe the only limitations are the ones that we accept. I know that there is, in theory, a glass ceiling. But I don't believe that it's a solid wall. I'm going through it. Nothing's stopping me. Yes, there are these preconceived notions; yes, we have challenges. Let's accept them, let's not be afraid of them, let's break through them. — Debbi Fields
I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I come from a philosophy that believes you shouldn't have preconceived notions - that you don't need a gimmick. That you should just photograph what you react to - what you see. — Elliott Erwitt
That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas. — Azar Nafisi
When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious. — James Cook
It would be so helpful for the straight community to see men in powerful positions coming out and saying "I'm gay" so they don't have these preconceived notions that all gay men are smarmy idiots living on the street or whatever it is people think of gay men. I think it would be really helpful and productive. — Madonna Ciccone
The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes. — Dan Brown
I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion. — Esperanza Spalding
A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society. — Maria Montessori
It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while. — Rose McGowan
One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct with no preconceived notions. This enabled me to learn and change quickly without having to worry about maintaining any kind of status quo, like some of my bigger competitors. — Michael Dell
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress
I want to be in a position where I get to start off fresh. I don't have any preconceived notion of how I should feel. — Trevor Noah
I learned early on to abandon all those preconceived notions you have about other actors and it's served me really well. I usually just try to empty my mind of that. I love meeting actors and I love working with actors. — Ryan Reynolds
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. — Thomas Huxley
Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’m here to tell you that undead are just like you and me … well, okay. Possibly more like me than you. — Cassandra Clare
For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are. — Ricki Lake
It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means. — Daniel Clowes
You have this preconceived notion of him [Sly Stallone] as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four languages and he likes to watercolor. — Rachael Leigh Cook
We have no right to judge where we should be put, or to have preconceived notions as to what God is fitting us for. God engineers everything; wherever He puts us, our one great aim is to pour out a whole-hearted devotion to Him in that particular work. 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.' — Oswald Chambers
People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions. — Gina Carano
Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. — Thomas Henry Huxley
I'm not really sure what people's preconceived notions are. I don't look at the gossip websites - it's unhealthy and I think it's a large part of what drives people in L.A. crazy. — Mischa Barton
People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. Before you make a statement about someone, get all the information and see everything before you make a judgment. — Amanda Bynes
Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be. — Talib Kweli
Нou're always in constant dialogue with your interior self versus your exterior self: how you look, and how you're perceived, and then people's preconceived notions of you. — Sarah Gadon
I don't go into a movie with preconceived notions of where I want things to go. — Morgan Spurlock
Every woman deals with sexism most every day of their lives. Growing up, it's just in your day-to-day. There are all these preconceived notions of what it means to be a woman or a girl, and straying from those ideas of femininity is sort of shocking to people. I felt angered by that as a kid. I felt like that was unjust. Like that was not right. — Amy Schumer
People have all these preconceived notions about magicians, like that they're lonely and bitter or they're socially awkward people. I don't know what magician hurt all these people, but I'm constantly having to overcome all these stereotypes. So, no. I'm sure there are just as many magicians who are lonely and bitter as there are comedians, lawyers, or any profession. — Justin Willman
While acting in Armed Response I was always focused, just so they could see me as a peer and maybe not some idiot who's coming in from the pro-wrestling world. I'm sure they had their preconceived notions about me so I just hope that once we were finished with a scene, or finished with the movie overall, that I managed to change their perspective based on what they were expecting. — Seth Rollins
There's a theory that nobody believes. That Robert Mueller is Mr. Honest and Mr. Integrity, has no preconceived notion and is really gonna look to find what happened in White House and whatever he finds is what he's gonna tell us. That's the thing that you would associate with Mr. Integrity, with Mr. Honesty, with Mr. Character, is the last thing anybody thinks is gonna happen. — Rush Limbaugh
Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions. — Mary Tyler Moore
I've learned that you shouldn't have preconceived notions about anybody. — Alton Brown
I think people have certain preconceived notions of certain people that they've never met. And so, that's sort of what I try to work from. — Justin Hartley
I become an actress to do things that scare the sh*t out of me and I felt like I didn't stand a chance to get this part because people have preconceived notions about me, but if they gave me the part, I would do everything in my power to not screw it up. — Lizzy Caplan
I have successfully avoided being stereotyped into a specific category. I've worked very hard at that, and I'm proud of not being easily lumped into anybody's preconceived notions or expectations. — Amber Heard
I don't think you can help but personalize a role. You almost play to none of the preconceived notions of it. It's more or less a personal experience and journey. — Ryan Reynolds
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