Preconceptions Quotes

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We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions. — Taiichi Ohno
Once you embark on a road of imagination and creating, all bets are off. All preconceptions about what you must do, make, think, assume, and… — Jon Rappoport
I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment… — Guy Sajer
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions. — Vera Rubin
Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as… — David Eagleman
He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a… — Maria Montessori
Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident… — William Carlos Williams
If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design? — Michael Hansmeyer
A remarkable tour de force that will hopefully end forever the argument that science and the spiritual are opposed to one another. This wonderful collection… — James Fadiman
Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander… — Kenny Smith
In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling. — Robert F. Goheen
I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful. — Sylvia Plath
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions. — Vincent Cassel
In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way… — Mark Nepo
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization. Here is a… — Kenny Smith
SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions. — John Thomas Sladek
We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change… — Wendy Beckett
When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with… — Maximus the Confessor
Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves. — Mata Amritanandamayi
When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic… — Jim Broadbent

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