Quotes About Misconceptions

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.

They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.

Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Sometimes she thought that the people overseas had no room in their heart for Africa, because nobody had ever told them that African people were just the same as they were

That was the trouble with people in general: they were surprisingly unrealistic in their expectations.

It was reasonable enough, of course, for people to wish to speak to a man, if that is what they wanted, but that did not mean that a man would be better.

Everyone knew that once a woman was 30, she might as well be dead.

There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.

I'm into S/M" is a turnoff to a lot of people who have mistaken ideas about what that means

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

don't you think? Not that this isn't a common bias. But women can be psychopaths,

Our Assumptions About Intentions Are Often Wrong

Vegans and vegetarians are commonly baited by nonvegetarians with "what if" scenarios that typically have no relevance to or bearing on most people's real-life situations.

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

One of the most incomprehensible features of a crowd is the tenacity with which the members adhere to erroneous assumptions despite mounting evidence to challenge them.

Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

Still, the mythology persists in SF, as elsewhere, that women are naturally gentler than men, that they are naturally less creative than men, or less intelligent, or shrewder, or more cowardly, or more dependent, or more self-centered, or more self-sacrificing, or more materialistic, or shyer, or God knows what, whatever is most convenient at the moment.

Slightly said I was having "lady's hysterics". One of the twins mentioned something he'd heard about women going crazy twelve times a year.

Bitter, cold, barren. These are words thrown at women without children. Like we're a Montana winter. Either we're to be pitied or we're to be blamed, depending on how much choice we had in the matter.

Why is it that with women, some kink, some vulnerability of the sex, is always presumed to lie at the heart of things- as if they have no other life, no relevance as important as that which they have for us men?

was struck by American ignorance about the rest of the world and Americans' crude idea that Russia