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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion... or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas H. Huxley

I had no preconceived notions or agendas when I began this in 1993 as to what I was looking for.

Porcher Taylor

We'll meet those children, we'll hear their music and do an honest musical exchange and get to know them, learn how they live and what they believe. Therefore we're not just coming as tourists but as people that are open for as much learning and sharing as possible and breaking down barriers whether those are real or just preconceived notions.

Kevin Meidl

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.

Amanda Bynes

It's important that there doesn't appear to be preconceived perceptions of what the outcome will be. It's going to be thoroughly researched. The report that is going to come out at the end will drive the conversation, because the bill is up for reauthorization in 2007.

Andrea Messina

Any opinions I have are based on the same evidence that commissioners looked at. I haven't pre-judged anything. I don't have any preconceived notions. I have well-informed ideas.

Martin Cohen

Preconceived notions must be eliminated from the justice system. You will not be able to prejudge him. You will have to listen to the facts and evidence.

Cynthia Ross

The first thing is whether people can overcome their own preconceived notions. Do you need to see people to know they are working?

Jonathan Spira

We don?t have any preconceived notions about where the jail should be built. Obviously, we want some place that works with all of the jurisdictions as far as transport and accessibility.

Doug Stanley

It should not strengthen the position of those with a preconceived notion about terrorists.

Joseph Castelo

It's a movie, I just don't know what they're so afraid of. Whatever preconceived notions you have, you need to set them aside, the film will shatter those notions. It really isn't what people are imagining in their head. It's a lot more encompassing.

Diana Ossana

We didn't go in with any preconceived notions that there was particular wrongdoing.

Chip Thullbery

He didn't want us to have any preconceived ideas coming into a day. So the eight pages were very minimal. It would say, 'Dillon fights with Dove.' He wanted it to be just right in the moment ? whatever comes out comes out.

Kirby Heyborne

These people are coming in from the outside. They are experts in their fields with no loyalties and no preconceived ideas. They are going to look at the existing situation and gather comments from the people.

Jeff Hatling

I'm getting out, letting people know who I am. I've changed some minds of those who had preconceived notions.

Dale Wagstaff

We've come a long way in 75 years. In the 20th Judicial Circuit there are Hispanic, female and African-American judges. Times have changed, but preconceived notions still exist. If we are not diligent, they can negatively impact the justice system.

Cynthia Ross

We have no preconceived notions about what this is going to look like or be like. It sounds as though there are people in the community interested in having some input. Hopefully, they will come.

Barbara Clements

I am a first generation immigrant and a woman, but I don't really write about that because I feel like I'm a human being. There are universal human experiences. When you don't put your picture online, they can see your soul before they have preconceived notions.

Evelyn Rodriguez

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

Joanna Field

I understand that when people hear my last name, they have preconceived notions, but I was born an American and I love my country. I was born in the States, and I want people to know I'm American, and I want people to understand that I'm like anyone in New York. For me, it's home.

Wafah Dufour

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.

Jean Cocteau

I did not come in with preconceived notions when I came here. We went in to review what happened this season. Following the meeting, I made the decision we would not offer an extension.

Joe Quinlan

Anybody who comes to the show should have an open mind. It's kind of different. Take your expectations of a magic show, and forget them. This will change them. People have preconceived notions of what a magic show should be.

Curtis Adams

I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice.

Gustave Courbet

People had some preconceived notions about what my purpose was. Over time, being there and working with my colleagues in the Senate and the House . . . that falls away as the defining characteristic.

Sen. Scott Mccoy

Then you have preconceived notions. You see it all the time. It happens on the pro tour. People from Alabama will compete in a tournament there and won't do so well. They get stuck on where the fish should be.

Josh Mabee

It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.

Daniel Clowes

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Merry Browne

We don't have preconceived notions about a team, ... That would be unfair. You call it as you see it.

Ted Jackson