Quotes Tagged With :preconceptions

We might laugh at the notion of plastic tea sets in the jungle, but it is a time-honored ritual for Western....

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should....

It was a cultural revolution, and was not directed at instituting economic changes. He could thus appeal....

My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women,....

[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them....

Belief gets in the way of learning.

[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that....

People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist more fiercely within themselves.....

We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life....

There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.