Preconceived Notion Quotes

A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.

People around the NBA really think that I'm dumb or stupid. But people that know me know that I'm actually very intelligent.

Most people named Willie are either in prison or on the armwrestling circuit.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.

To frame an issue is to reduce it to a story for which there is only one possible outcome

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, 'I will be a comedic actor.' I just thought, 'I'll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get.'

A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be.

That preconceived notion of me being inaccurate is completely false, and I look forward to changing that over time.

Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

I never had a preconceived notion about what I should do or what I should take up… I am not that intelligent.

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. Before you make a statement about someone, get all the information and see everything before you make a judgment.

People always think I’m dainty when they meet me, but I’m really not. I’m very German – we’re not made out of sugar.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

People think I'm going to be this really dark human when they meet me.

I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.

And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"

What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.