Prepossessions Quotes & Sayings

But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts. — Suzanne Collins

Here's a Challenge: Study a complicated topic in such detail that anyone interested can nod their head and understand as you explain specific concepts within the topic. — Albert Einstein

Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal. — Thomas Huxley

A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life. — Allen Johnson

A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as philosophy, that the difference of fortune makes less difference in happiness than is vulgarly imagined; such a one does not measure out degrees of esteem according to the rent-rolls of his acquaintance. He may, indeed, externally pay a superior deference to the great lord above the vassal; because riches are the most convenient, being the most fixed and determinate, source of distinction. But his internal sentiments are more regulated by the personal characters of men, than by the accidental and capricious favours of fortune. — David Hume

The deliberate habituation of patriotism has a bearing upon the problem of peace. Knowledge of other peoples will not bring harmony and mutual goodwill unless it is sympathetic knowledge, and, if it is to be sympathetic, our mental prepossessions must be shaped so as to open our minds to a just appreciation of unwelcome facts and ways at variance with our own. — Clarence Reidenbach

Heaven has no clocks or calendars, and time will be no more [Revelation 10:6]. — Billy Graham

Celebrities are like infants. Neither can wipe their own ass. — Michael Brian

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues. — Neil Young

There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions. — George Crabbe

All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for which their reason is unable to discover any adequate cause. The strength of a belief, when it is destitute of any rational foundation, seems, of itself, to furnish a new ground for credulity. We first admit a powerful persuasion, and then, from reflecting on the insufficiency of the ground on which it is built, instead of being prompted to dismiss it, we become more forcibly attached to it. — Charles Brockden Brown

I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then. — Tracy Morgan

As an actor, you go through life thinking "This stop is the last stop," so you just put your heart and soul into everything and do your best work. — Elizabeth Banks