Quotes About Misconception

Men saw in whales everything-except whales themselves.

What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods and vermin is ideology.

superstition needs no grounding in truth, but once rooted, it grows a strong though twisted tree.

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

Just because a woman's got no teeth doesn't mean she's wise. It might just mean she's been stupid for a very long time.

It's all bloody lies about the sea. It's just all yuk with lobsters in it.

Don't judge a book by its thickness either.

I feel like my entire career and life, I've been judged by people who did not really know me. I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was such little to go on out there.

I think I've always been interested in playing people who are judged very harshly.

People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.

The 'Celeb Juice' job was never mine - people just guessed - but it was quite funny to watch the rumours.

Like a real dumb idiot, I believed that to avoid a grenade that drops in the water, you could just jump in the water, and you'd be fine.

I don't know EDM artists or the albums. At first I thought it was all just one guy, some DJ called EDM.

People mostly associate Tagore only with Gitanjali. That is the mistake they make. Gitanjali is just one per cent of his oeuvre.

The justification for early boarding is based on a massive but common misconception. Because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, the founders of the system believed that emotional hardship must make you emotionally tough. It does the opposite.

People have this misconception that people with six-pack abs can deliver hits, but that's not the case. Had I built six-pack abs for 'Tanu Weds Manu Returns,' I wouldn't have been able to justify myself.

I don't know why people always think of the Kennedys as a Boston family.

In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.

When I was a little kid, it blew my mind and kind of broke my heart when I found out that the 'Dukes of Hazzard' weren't actually from Hazard, Kentucky.

There's a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot of people didn't know what he was going on about.

Some think I do nothing but drive a Bentley around and hang out with Kim.