People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them. — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
I, like many people, had some sort of preconception about Madonna. One of the preconceptions was that she had the extraordinary work… — James D'arcy Copy Share Image
I hope I helped change people's preconceptions about 'Page 3' girls by appearing on Newsnight and at the Oxford Union debate. — Peta Todd Copy Share Image
“Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
Even sometimes our preconceptions of what we think we need is different to actually what we do need, so we've got to… — Rebecca St. James Copy Share Image
In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as… — Henry Holmes Smith Copy Share Image
If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It's the results that are surprising, even results where we've totally screwed up, and then learned something in the process, are the… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
[John] Calvin treats experience as essentially visionary and revelatory from moment to moment, addressed to the individual perceiver, the individual soul. Where… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Changing people's preconceptions is something you have to do in order to search for truth. Of course normally, that's not done because… — Jiang Wen Copy Share Image
He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
Travel opens different eyes to different things, shows things we've never seen before, shows the world from entirely different angles. That's the… — Danny Gregory Copy Share Image
Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A remarkable tour de force that will hopefully end forever the argument that science and the spiritual are opposed to one another.… — James Fadiman Copy Share Image
The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing,… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
It's completely different, for instance, to report on poor farmers in Africa than it is to report on, say, poor African-Americans. The… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Bare skin is the one and only right criterion for receiving water's gracious acceptance or any acceptance whatsoever from that element. But… — Janet Lembke Copy Share Image
The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience. When you're meeting somebody for the first time, all… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
All I want is for people to listen to it with unbiased ears, and decide for themselves. I just don't want them… — Melanie Chisholm Copy Share Image
“...you cannot enter into an investigation with a philosophy that dictates the outcome. Objectivity is paramount; this is the first principle of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in 'Goodfellas!'… — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
“[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions… — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
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