Preconceptions Quotes

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I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs… — Ben Gibbard
Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality. — John Cage
If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really putting yourself out… — Kamasi Washington
When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize… — Marcus Aurelius
I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas. — Dan Stevens
I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated… — Kristin Scott Thomas
Soon the childâ€™s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of… — Peter Matthiessen
The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as… — Carl Sagan
If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of… — Paulo Coelho
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… — Clarice Lispector
Beliefâ€¦is the insistence that the truth is what one would â€˜liefâ€™ or (will or) wish to beâ€¦Faith is an unreserved opening of the mind to… — Alan Watts
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that… — Virginia Woolf
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than… — C.S. Lewis
I am silver and exact.I have no preconceptions. — Sylvia Plath
First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is… — Jesse Ball
Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their… — Paulo Coelho
I've told you before. You shouldn't judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions. — Masashi Kishimoto
You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it. — Cecil Taylor
...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore… — William James

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