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Letter "P" » preconceived
«When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it»
Author: Chester Bowles
| About:
Decision,
Problems
| Keywords:
assemble, assembling, preconceived, preconceived opinion, stick to, strip
«I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know»
Author: Joanna Field
| About:
Ideas
| Keywords:
began, discovery, fit, gradual, preconceived, purposes, shaping, slow
«Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.»
«You have this preconceived notion of him [Sly Stallone] as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four languages and he likes to watercolor.»
Author: Rachael Leigh Cook
(Actress)
| Keywords:
languages, on the sly, preconceived, preconceived notion, sly, tough guy, watercolor
«Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| Keywords:
abysses, humbly, notion, preconceived, preconceived notion, sit down
«It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
| Keywords:
amazing, notions, ordinary, ordinary people, preconceived, preconceived notion, set out
«For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived»
«The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Discovery of, effectively, mislead, preconceived, preconceived opinion, prevented, The Discovery
«Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he is reasoning, that his picture is an artifice; but when he is painting, he should feel that he has copied nature. An»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art,
Nature,
Painting
| Keywords:
artifice, artifices, backs, copied, deliberately, preconceived, work in
«The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
bewildered, preconceived, relation to, tragedies
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