General Acceptance Quotes
11 quotes by 9 authors
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking…
— Kurt Lewin
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Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied to art has…
— Childe Hassam
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The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the…
— Bernard Lown
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
— Frederick Douglass
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The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite…
— Diane Wakoski
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The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.
— Childe Hassam
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
— Fernando Pessoa
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The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.
— Michael Shermer
Who Wrote These General Acceptance Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 11 General Acceptance Quotes as follows: