Quotes About Preconceptions

Judge not the Sufi to be that which you can see of him, my friend. How long, like a child, will you prefer only nuts and raisins?

A werewolf. The knowledge wasn't so shocking now. How could it be? He was right. She was a vampire. Not like she could judge.

Thought you'd be older." He shook his head. "Hoped you'd be uglier.

When people are surprised I can do things is always fun. Just because I have muscles doesn't mean I don't play video games.

When I went through my life, I was like, 'I sit around and play video games all day. Nobody wants to hear about this.'

I know what I'm doing off the court. Everybody just sees pictures or videos of me, and if it looks out of shape, they just assume that I'm fat or I'm not working.

If you look at the pictures in her social media accounts, there's always dirty laundry in the background. She's a slob. Does that sound like an astronaut to you?

Check your assumptions. In fact, check your assumptions at the door.

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions

Don't judge people by how they act or look.. judge them on how you think of them and how you see them. Some people may seem way different on how you judged them before.

Even sometimes our preconceptions of what we think we need is different to actually what we do need, so we've got to be more open and give guys more of a chance.

People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.

I think a lot of people have the idea that all I do is dunk and all I do is make layups.

So he's nervous about me making trouble at the bus stop. It makes me want to laugh. Just as truthfully, I could've told him I was class president. On the football team. Straight-A student. But what was interesting about any of that?

If we were in a spreadsheet, we'd be in different columns." She'd be under uptight/nerdy/homely girls, and he'd be under badass men with bodies of..um..Navy SEALS. He grunted. "Just so you know, I hate spreadsheets with a hot, burning passion.

People know more about my views than they do about most BBC presenters because I had a life before becoming a BBC presenter.

Do you have kids? Anna asks. I laugh. What do you think? It's probably a good thing, she admits. No offense, but you don't exactly look like a parent. That fascinates me. What do parents look like? She seems to think about this. You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? Like that.

But sometimes that title 'jazz' can vex people who think they know exactly what jazz always is and will be.

I'm in limbo. The baseball people are like, 'Oh, he's basketball athletic.' The basketball people are like, 'Well, he plays baseball, so he's probably not that athletic.'

I think I know what sort of person I am. But then I think, But this stranger will imagine me quite otherwise when he or she hears this or that to my credit, for instance that I have a position at the university: the fact that I have a position at the university will appear to mean that I must be the sort of person who has a position at the university.

We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.

It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.

with Bergotte, the embarrassment of the name, laden with its disconcerting preconceptions, was insignificant compared with the chagrin I felt at the prospect of tying this man with his goatee to the work I knew, as though to a balloon, and wondering whether it might still have the power to become airborne.

I think it is true that you can eat extremely healthy food at McDonald's, and you can eat amazingly badly at Chipotle.