#conceptions

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#apply #author #enough #many #measure

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic. ↗

— Laura Riding

#act #bad #believe #correct #does

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you! ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#heart #heartbreak #jane-eyre #love #misconceptions

Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#misconceptions #status-quo #intelligence

One of the misconceptions about BlackBerry is that it's your parents' smartphone. ↗

— Thorstein Heins

#blackberry #misconceptions #parents #your

I think the other misconceptions when the film came out, he was very upset that it was so widely released and so widely seen. And neither one of us - well, I think I had hopes it would be, 'cause I really did think it was something special. ↗

— Terry Zwigoff

#cause #did #film #had #hopes

The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#best way #called #creative #creative process #elusive

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#average #average man #conceptions #conditions #desire

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#education #filling #minds #misconceptions #our

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions. ↗

— John Sladek

#depending #least #preconceptions #sf