Quotes About Misconception

You know they ain't bad people. They're just uneducated, unsophisticated, untraveled, immoral, and uncivilized. Plus stupid. -The Missing

The word "see" is often used as a direct synonym for "understand"—"I see what you mean." Yet sometimes we see but we don't understand; worse, we see, then "understand" something that isn't true at all. Done well, a picture of data is worth the proverbial thousand words.

Ignorance' is probably the best word to describe public opinion on dietary fat, Harcombe said.

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish

There was a tendency in the U.S. Navy to assume that since they made their living by charging into machine-gun fire, Marines were dumb.

There was reality, and then there was perception, and rarely the two shall meet.

Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have repeated our ignorance, one to the other, we have mistaken it for knowledge.

It might be noted here that Freudian analysts of fairy tales have suggested that kissing toads and frogs is symbolized fellatio. In that regard, Princess Leigh-Cheri was, on a conscious level, innocent, although not so naive as Queen Tilli, who thought fellatio was an obscure Italian opera and was annoyed that she couldn't find the score.

And one man in Nebraska thought the telegraph wires were a kind of tightrope; he watched the line carefully ''to see the man run along the wires with the letter bags.

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

She didn't say so, but it suddenly occurred to her that good sex was not knowledge. It was barely information.

You mean he's not afraid of me because I'm a woman? He ought to see Tomb Raider sometime. For all he knows, I could have a nuclear bomb under my dress and a hand grenade in each cup of my bra. I call it antifeminist!

Yes, right, and the earth is flat," I replied. Stupidly, I said it out loud. Everyone else at the table looked at me, taken aback. "No, Gwenny, the earth is a globe," Caroline kindly told me. "I couldn't believe it at first, either. But apparently it flies through the universe at lightning speed.

I do seriously think that the most profound criticism of the culture of our time can be found in a sentence which, I believe, was written by Artemus Ward, which runs, I think: "It isn't so much people's ignorance that does the harm as it is their knowing so many things that ain't so.

North Americans think they know how to speak Christian, but what they say is actually a gross distortion. Either people do not know Christian words at all, or they have heard them but do not know what they mean, or they think they know what they mean when in fact they mean something completely different.

The thing that bugs me is that the people think the FDA is protecting them. It isn't. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it's doing are as different as night and day. —Herbert Lay, M.D., former FDA Commissioner

Old creature with a sore leg (reference to Elizabeth I- he was incorrectly told she limped because of a varicose vein)

A dogs being huge or big in size doesn't mean its fierce as being small isn't fierce

He doesn't look like the type who's into cookies anyway.

Silly boys. Did you think we were making a silent movie?

First things first: Marie Antoinette never said, 'Let them eat cake.' Those words were attributed to an earlier French Queen, Marie-Therese, the wife of the Sun King Louis XIV. By 1767---a year in which Marie Antoinette was still an innocent German-speaking twelve-year-old in Austria....

To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.

Of course, that a sentence is utterly fallacious has never prevented it from being believed by large numbers of people and, on occasion, used as a foundational principle for a comprehensive philosophy of life.

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.