- Nov 07, 2020
Conditioned Quotes
On the beliefs we're taught without questioning.
To be conditioned is to absorb a belief so thoroughly it starts to feel like plain fact, even when it deserves a second look. These quotes challenge assumptions about who gets blamed unfairly or who gets cast as a hero, echoing themes in our Believe collection.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made a number of independent films that didn't receive theatrical distribution, that a lot of people haven't heard of, and as a result, I've conditioned myself to go into small independent films with the expectation that they will not, and therefore, I have to find my reward elsewhere.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are conditioned to believe that the hero is always a man, but it might not necessarily be so.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trans women are conditioned to accept that society sees us as overly sexualized objects - even more so than how society already sexualizes cis women. It's almost as if they don't see us as fully developed human beings.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a trained engineer, so I'm conditioned to come up with a right answer to a difficult question, but when it comes to art, there is no definite answer because it's so subjective.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been conditioned to think that quitting is a failure, a form of failure. How do we know that that's true?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can you actually go through life without labeling what happens to you as good or bad? Sure you can. You have to train yourself to do this. You have been conditioned to think of things as bad or good. You can de-condition yourself. It is neither easy nor fast but it is possible.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was having health issues all my life. You're just not conditioned to think of them as health issues.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal of my work is to make visible the inevitable racist assumptions held, and patterns displayed, by white people conditioned from living in a white supremacist culture.
- Discard
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I can remember, I saw myself as black. I was socially conditioned to discard that. It was an all-white town. I was very unhappy. I felt like I was constantly self-sabotaging in order to conform to religion, culture dynamics. I was censoring myself. I was shutting down inside.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all know we're conditioned from music and television, so for us, we take great privilege in being role models, and having an impressionable audience its important for us to make sure what we're doing is in line with them.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by this is we don't just respond to things as we see them or feel them or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020