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Prejudice is permafrost
Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.
When preconception is so clearly defined, so easily reproduced, so enthusiastically welcomed and so long accommodated as in the case of Piltdown Man, science reveals a disturbing predisposition towards belief before investigation.
Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society, the way that a child catches the measles. But people with understanding realize that their presuppositions should be *chosen* after a careful consideration of which worldview is true.
Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past
Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.
The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions.
If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.
prejudice unchallenged is prejudice perpetuated.
All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
Example is more powerful than precept.
The percept takes priority of the concept.
Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.
Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.
Conceit is incompatible with understanding.
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
Preconceived, fixed notions can be more damaging than cannon.
Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment
A good example is far better than a good precept.
Assumptions are what we don't know we are making
Life's all about perceptions.
Thought precedes actions.
An assumption is something you don't know you're making." DOUGLAS ADAMS
Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .
Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
Beware of assumptions and the arrogance they bring
The majority of dysfunctions that arise and entrench themselves in our lives are caused because of preconditioned expectations and assumptions.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.
That which I think only according to the standard of my individuality is not binding on another; it can be conceived otherwise; it is an accidental, merely subjective view.
Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
Prejudice. It's a bad thing. Once your mind is prejudiced, you will not think beneath or beyond. Actually, you will stop thinking.
I was thinking about how people prejudge other people. That's the same as prejudice, right?
Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.
It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard
Before you assume. Learn.
Before you judge. Understand.
Before you hurt. Feel.
Before you say. Think.
Every thought precedes an action.
One of the worst things anybody can do is assume. I think fools assume. If people have really got it together, they never assume anything. They believe, they work hard, and they prepare- but they don't assume.
We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make. And this is why we have a fear of being ourselves around others.
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
Imagine about anything instead of assume about it.
You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met.
Every word is a prejudice.
It was beginning to occur to me that I was a little too in love with stereotypes and preconceptions.
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
Prejudice is one of the world's greatest labor-saving devices; it enables you to form an opinion without having to dig up the facts.
Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.
Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.
When we look at something, we are often not aware of who is perceiving, and unaware of the mental-emotional filter created by past experiences, hopes and expectations.
Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind
Preconceived notions and rules are antithetical to the creative process.
Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.
An inference of perspective,
a glimpse of regularity,
causation of habit,
and the only recurrence:
my faith in you.
Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.
Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
Stereotypes are the mind's shorthand for dealing with complexities. They have two aspects: they are much blunter than reality; they are shaped to fit a man's preferences or prejudgments. Thus two principles are involved: differentiation or its lack, and biased preferential perception.
All words are prejudices.
More than anyone, I am aware of the preconceptions. I was a Spice Girl. I'm married to a footballer.
Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought.
A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
Expectations are illusions;
Pretense they hang on thin threads.
Children's egocentric tendency to attribute their own view of world to others, only later come to realize that they may have a unique and subjective view of the world too.
It is necessary to analyze all the restricting beliefs and complexes, which we acquired in childhood, from family, school and society
These are the prejudices which I undertook to notice here. If any others of a similar character remain, they can easily be rectified with a little thought by anyone.
Prejudice is the pinnacle of self injected ignorance. It enables poor choices to be pre-chosen.
Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason.
The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime.
If you look at all the notions we accept about who we are, you find that they are all based upon our perceptual experiences.
Beliefs are often imposed or spontaneously created thoughts that cannot be supported by facts.
One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
The throbbing habits of assumption tinted with malice lead to decisions and actions that drum out faith, trust and respect towards a crashing carelessness and uselessness. Be effective by discarding sneaking suspicions.
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.
PRONOIA: The irrational belief that people like you
Your perception is your right in your mind
Liberating a prejudiced mind from its preconceived notions and scripting a life of purposefulness requires constant postulation, observation, evaluation, and synthesizing.
Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.
Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same. Prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind.
Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.
We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.
Perception s the only reality that matters
Never misconceive that which is real
My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.
What am I that I am called upon to have prejudices concerning the universe?
Ignorance is brought about by assumption.
Normative mind tends to be naive.
A thought enters; we pamper it; it germinates and grows into an evil act.
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
If it's Truth we're after, we'll find that we cannot start with any assumptions or concepts whatsoever. Instead, we must approach the world with bare, naked attention, seeing it without any mental bias - without concepts, beliefs, preconceptions, presumptions, or expectations. (6)
All your behavior results from the thoughts that precede it.
What God predetermine proves true!
Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.