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We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Jessamyn West
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Intelligence people are no different from anybody else. They have preconceptions, and when they see them in real life, it reinforces how brilliant they think they are.

Tom Clancy, Debt of Honor
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There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.

E.B. White, One Man's Meat
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Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of preconception that helped us feel safe in whatever views or assumptions we are having.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando
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Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.

Virginia Woolf, The Second Common Reader
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Do not limit yourself to your own preconceptions of yourself, but throw yourself out onto a blank page that you haven't written on yet, and see what you find out about you, see what story unfolds, see what happens! I always do this, and sometimes it can be very frightening! To very often have a blank page with nothing written on it yet! I feel as though I am a soul with a single covering–my body of skin– and that's the only thing between me on the inside and the rest of the world! It's quite frightening to begin each day on a blank page, forgetting your own preconceptions of yourself and allowing your mind to embrace the new! It is like meeting yourself for the first time, over and over again!

C. JoyBell C.
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To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions

and not to try to avoid what is your lot.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

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

Robert Ferrigno, Sins of the Assassin
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It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.

John Reader, Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins
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