Change Quote by Jessamyn West

Changing people's preconceptions is something you have to do in order to search for truth. Of course normally, that's not done because it also…

— Jiang Wen

Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to…

— William James

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

— Frances Wright

In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse…

— Erasmus Darwin

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

— William James

The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.

— Celia Green

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions,…

— Art Spiegelman

Facts are like a big buffet; we pick the ones we like and ignore the ones we don't like.

— Perry Lane

“Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of preconception that…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“What’s true? What’s false? In case you haven’t noticed, the world has pretty much given up on the old Enlightenment idea of piecing together…

— Nathan Hill

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand