Quotes About Prepossessions

I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

I do not allow my possessions—or my prepossessions either—to do any thinking for me.

And this, like all instincts, was a little distressing for people who did not share it; to Mr. Carmichael perhaps, to herself certainly. Some notion was in both of them about the ineffectiveness of action, the supremacy of thought. Her going was a reproach to them, gave a different twist to the world, so that they were led to protest, seeing their own prepossessions disappear, and clutch at them vanishing.

he cut his way out of the jungle of these prepossessions, accepted the equality of all men in Christ, and applied this principle relentlessly in all its issues.