Quotes About Misconceptions

In a post-Christian era many of our friends, neighbors, and colleague will reject God for a score of reasons, but we must live and speak that they reject God for God's sake and not because of what we have said or done that has framed God wrongly.

Is it not true that no two human beings understand anything whatsoever about each other, that those who consider themselves bosom friends may be utterly mistaken about their fellow and, failing to realize this sad truth throughout a lifetime, weep when they read in the newspapers about his death?

What superficiality—and what stupidity—there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty. The masters through their subjective perceptions created beauty out of trivialities. They did not hide their interest even in things which were nauseatingly ugly, but soaked themselves in the pleasure of depicting them. In other words, they seemed not to rely in the least on the misconceptions of others.

They did not hide their interest even in things which were nauseatingly ugly, but soaked themselves in the pleasure of depicting them. In other words, they seemed not to rely in the least on the misconceptions of others.

What superficiality- and what stupidity- there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty. The masters through their subjective perceptions created beauty out of trivialities. They did not hide their interest on things which were nauseatingly ugly, but soaked themselves in the pleasure of depicting them. In other words, they seemed not to rely in the least on the misconceptions of others.

En el fondo, nos hemos equivocado al prejuzgar que convertirse en un abuelito de trescientos años ha supuesto una desgracia para Urashima.

Still, one of the few good things about being dyslexic is that when I say I don't read reviews, I mean I don't read reviews.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

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

People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

Children are notoriously literal readers, and I was no exception. Books, I believed, contained the entire truth about everything, and if you could just read every book or even a good chunk of the Truly Important Ones, you would know what you needed to know about real life. And you could be a part of it. Naturally, I got a lot of things wrong.

Se bem que, cruel engano, nós nos afastemos com frequência da felicidade através dos meus que verdadeiramente nos deveriam dela aproximar. Daí os frequentes equívocos a seu respeito: que deve ser reivindicado como um dever, aprendido como uma matéria escolar, construído como uma casa: que se compra, qual moeda, que outros enfim possuem de fonte segura e que basta imitá-los para sermos inundados como eles pela mesma aura.

Fred didn't swim either. He said Indians didn't swim.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little," wrote Mark Twain, "it's that they know so many things that ain't so.")

You just call if you have any other problems," the fire marshall said. "Only – there's one thing we don't do. We don't do cats in trees. Everybody thinks we do, but we don't. You have a cat in a tree, don't call us.

The public is conditioned to believe new and better drugs are the answer to our medical problems, but that is seldom the case.

The truth about people had not much to do with what they said about themselves, or what others said about them.

No one really knows how it is with anyone else. That's the truth. That's our only real retaliation when the gossip starts to churn.

Violists hate it when we violinists crack viola jokes.

After all, he was human, in spite of rumors to the contrary.

Contrary to a great number of priests and other godly types, queer does not mean castrated.

a common burden so many Christians have unwittingly carried, namely, that watching over us is God, an unstable parent, who is right off the bat harsh, vindictive, at best begrudgingly merciful, and mainly interested in whether we've read and understood the fine print; if not, God has no recourse but to punish us.