Quotes About Preconceptions

As Simone Weil said in various ways, it is much easier to make non-Christians into Christians than it is to make Christians into Christians. Cradle Christians are almost totally preconditioned to the carrot-on-the-stick model.

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

in the Cheddar Gorge area of Somerset, revealed that these Britons were far from the light-skinned, straight- and fair-haired humans that they had been supposed to be.

I'd never watched The Bachelor myself and was basing everything on preconceptions. But somehow the idea of all these intelligent young women competing pageant-style for the love of some blandly handsome pharmaceutical sales rep who kept talking about his "journey.

I'm always weary of connotations. I don't want people to listen to the music I make presently because they liked my previous work, or to dismiss it because they didn't. I'm guilty of this as well - having preconceptions about other artists - but it's stupid because all music exists on its own and should be listened to with a clear head.

People put me in this ditzy, posh and stuck-up category, so it's been nice the public have been able to see the real me.

People in the legal field are always surprised when they learn I'm a Raiderette. I don't broadcast it; I don't have my team poster in the office.

People always meet me and go, 'You're so much cooler than I thought you'd be,' and I'm like, 'What did you expect me to be like?'

People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.

Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I'm playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That's really what intrigued me as well because I thought it would be fun to do it.

I hate that phrase "the real world." Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it?

He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.

You look too pretty to be useful. - Angeline

I'd never seen men hold each other. I thought the only things they were allowed to do was shake hands or fight.

We are all walled cities shouting at each other over the armaments of our preconceptions.

Constant reminding ourselves that we do not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as we notice, more and more often, how much of our perceptions emerge from our preconceptions.

People believed what made them comfortable. What fit with their preconceptions of how the world worked.

È sempre un incontro alla cieca tra due persone che mettono in scena vecchie idee e sogni e impressioni sbagliate.

To say we know a person is to write that person off.

Nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on a poster and go shopping.

Never judge others using the prism of your preconceived notions. You will never know the mountains of challenges and the oceans of searing sorrows they had to cross to be who they are today. The game of Life is never so easy to play for many oftentimes.

How to survive as a reasonably intact human being undamaged by popular preconceptions and misconceptions? It has been a long uphill battle.

In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.