Quotes About Misconceptions

I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.

More interesting is another cultural connection this reveals: that unpopular, controversial or just plain different views when voiced by a woman are taken as indications of her stupidity. It is not that you disagree, it is that she is stupid: 'Sorry, love, you just don't understand.

From now on, I'm telling everyone I meet I'm in insurance. Or I'm a car dealer. Better yet—a Republican. That way, when they accuse me of doing the Devil's work, at least there will be some validity to their claims.

He [Arthur Miller] wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

For this reason, white historians think that there was no sun-dancing among the Sioux between 1883 and the 1930s, but they are wrong. The dance simply went underground. During all that time, every year some Sioux, somewhere, performed the ceremony. Henry

I mean, we all know the dangers of starving, but bulimia? That can't be that bad. It's only bad when you get really thin. Who worries about bulimics? They're just gross.

Just because we talk slow doesn't mean we think slow, others point out. On the East Coast they seem to think there's something funny about riding around in a pickup truck. Well in the Deep South, we don't think it's all that natural to hurdle through the dark in a crowded subway.

Yet people still don't think depression really that bad. If they did, they wouldn't say the things they say.

You could fill whole libraries with the lies that have been told about Christians and Christianity. The world lies about this subject more than anything else.

Lies are always swirling around Christianity. Other common lies today include: Christians hate all non-Christians; Christians think everyone else is going to hell; smart people are not Christian; Christianity is dying and won't be around for much longer.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

Rumors were nothing more than blunted swords of simple minds and wagging tongues.

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

Its not that they want her. It's just they have this feeling, and they're off, Billy, they're way off, but they have this sense that, somehow behind that knockout face of hers, she's more like the women they see on the job, on patrol, on a case, in the precint house. Women with stories as long as their rap sheets, as their dangling legs…

Though most people believe exercise is a "very effective" way to lose weight,3085 that has been referred to as a "myth" in the scientific literature.3086 In fact, it's been labeled as one of the most common misconceptions in the field of obesity,

All the wrong questions have been asked and the correct answers are not true.

Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.

I can be a little prickly when people make assumptions about women.

To misquote Mark Twain: It isn't what we don't know that gets us into trouble. It's what we know for sure that just isn't so.

stories people tell about climate change don't have much to do with science.

These were all tragic misconceptions—factual errors that, had they been checked against reality, would have come up short. Nevertheless, they were sincerely believed; thus extermination had a kind of inescapable internal logic to it, however grotesque.

He's afraid they'll tell their kids to stay away from him and cross the street when they see him. "Don't talk to the crazy man, honey. He might bite you." Coming from someone covered in tattoos, this seemed a little strange. I mean, you can see tattoos. You can't see crazy. If I was him, I'd be more worried about people thinking he was in a gang or something.