Prepossession Quotes

#1. Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one; yet this is exactly the stand point from which all uninitiates contemplate the universe. Obviously, they miss the music.

Aleister Crowley

#2. When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate age, the Grecian purity of taste, of manners and of religion. The emperor's prepossession was increased and justified by the discreet pride of his favourite.

Edward Gibbon

#3. The whole of the Targum deserves study as shewing how textual ambiguity or corruption may combine with doctrinal prepossession to modify tradition;
Chapter II, Section 2, Paragraph 1171

Edwin A. Abbott

#4. And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.

Thomas Paine

#5. I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned.

Jane Austen

#6. I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.

Lettie Prell

#7. Fate is a crazy thing.

Saumya Sharman

#8. You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment ...

James Gleick

#9. In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part.

Melissa Joan Hart

#10. Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it.

Charles Elachi

#11. My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.

Patti Davis

#12. I have two foes in the world, twins inextricably interrelated -- the hunger of the hungry and the glut of the glutted!

Marina Tsvetaeva

#13. There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

#14. I miss the comraderie of live television - the fact that you were on the set, you worked closely with the director and the cast, that I miss. But, no, I'm happy, I'm happy doing film.

Rod Serling

#15. You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

Hans Zimmer

#16. The world is a globe - the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.

Terry Pratchett

#17. There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

Roger Ebert