Quotes About Misconceptions

When visitors came to the fine state of Texas, they expected a dry, rolling plain studded with longhorn cattle, oil derricks, and an occasional cowboy in a huge hat. According to them, that plain had only one type of weather: scorching. That wasn't true at all. In fact, we had two types, drought and flood.

Mahon's problem is that he has some very definite ideas about what a man's supposed to be and what a male werebear should be. It sounds great in his head and he gets carried away with it. He isn't shy about sharing his bear wisdom. Then his views collide with reality and they mostly don't survive. At the core Mahon isn't evil. He means well and he wants to be seen as a good person, so when people react badly to the nonsense coming out of his mouth, he gets shocked and has to readjust.

it was the duty of philosophy to destroy the illusions which had their origin in misconceptions, whatever darling hopes and valued expectations may be ruined by its explanations.

Girls don't want men to be quiet and gentle, I'm told. If you're not panting with impatient lust they think you're not interested.

The fact that you use the term cunt in the same breath as sexist, shows that you display the same muddled, fucked-up thinking oan this issue as you do oan everything else.

Ah sortay jist laugh whin some cats say that racism's an English thing and we're aw Jock Tamson's bairn up here . . . it's likesay pure shite man, gadges talkin through their erses.

Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.

It's just that old people always think young people haven't really learned about love; and young people think that old people have forgotten about love; and, you know, they're both wrong.

Por desgracia, un público no informado tiende a confundir la erudición con la magia, y la vida amorosa parece ser el factor que requiere mayor cantidad de argucias.

It's just that old people always think young people haven't really learned about love; and young people think that old people have forgotten about love; and, you know, they're both wrong.

Salvo excepciones, los niños suelen ser un poco sosos. Además, carecen de poder, los adultos deciden por ellos y lo hacen mal, les inculcan sus propias ideas erróneas sobre la realidad y después los críos pasan el resto de sus vidas tratando de librarse de ellas.

La fiel mujer nos traía vino y comida a la cama; también preparó una tinaja con agua caliente para que nos laváramos, costumbre peruana que ella me había enseñado. Como todo español de origen, Pedro creía que el baño es peligroso, produce debilitamiento de los pulmones y adelgaza la sangre, pero le aseguré que la gente del Perú se bañaba a diario y nadie tenía los pulmones blandos ni la sangre aguada.

Algunos eran de una ignorancia monumental, llegaban a la universidad sin poder situar a Chile en un mapa y seguramente tampoco eran capaces de situar su propio país en el mundo: creían que Estados Unidos era el mundo.

There's nothing that can drive me from zero to crazy faster than a man who comes up to me and says, 'You know, I don't normally read books by women, but I really liked 'Gone Girl.''

If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

It's so hard to write about countries like Haiti because there's truths behind the misperceptions people have. But there's so much more. There are multiple truths.

I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.

Most people assume wrongly that science fiction is a male-based genre, when, in fact, there are far more women who tune into sci-fi than anyone expects.

I wish reporters were more in tune to the difference between the Asian experience and the Asian-American experience. I think often they lump the two together and think that when I talk about Asian-American narratives that they can cite 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' or 'Mulan' as proof of concept when it's a different experience.

When the second album came out, everybody gravitated immediately to the three and a half minute rock tunes and ignored the ballads. They thought all the Raspberries were was players of high-energy rock songs.

You look at 30 Seconds to Mars, and you don't think, 'Ooh, I bet they're angry.' No one really does anger these days. I suppose it's a turn-off.