#conceptions

People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in 'Goodfellas!' I was a nice guy too in the comedy 'Heartbreakers.' And I was a really sweet father to Johnny Depp in 'Blow!' ↗

— Ray Liotta

#blow #comedy #depp #father #guy

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

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it. ↗

— Cecil Taylor

#interested #music #must #preconceptions #really

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder. ↗

— David Moranis

#also #believe #bold #chaotic #connections

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#double-standards #empowerment #expectations #false-belief #feminism

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends. ↗

— M. Russell Ballard

#church #correcting #forward #friends #giant

All I want is for people to listen to it with unbiased ears, and decide for themselves. I just don't want them to be dictated to by the media, or have preconceptions about it. If you like it, great. If you don't, fair enough. ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#decide #dictated #ears #enough #fair

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions. ↗

— Vera Rubin

#best #force #observations #our #preconceptions

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #concealment #empowerment #feminism #ignorance