Preconceived Notions Quotes

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

Convictions are much more an enemy of the truth than lies.

I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.

Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

One thing that irritates me is when people kind of make assumptions.

For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak.

Making false claims about somebody before you know them, and about a group of guys, that has no business in our world. If we're trying to promote peace and love, I don't think that has any place.

No matter what I say, people are going to have their opinions and there is nothing I can do about that.

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.

A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.