Quotes About Misconception

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.'fn1

A Primeira Lei Fundamental da Estupidez Humana afirma, sem ambiguidade, que «inevitavelmente, toda a gente subestima sempre o número de indivíduos estúpidos em circulação.»

How can U fairly assess someone from the outside looking in ... majority of the times you will be wrong.

Blue skies can be misleading.

And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual.

We often assume that when the surface offers so little the depth must be unfathomable.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.

Are you the one with the blue eyes?" "Actually, my eyes are usually described as golden...and luminous.

Money is not the root of all evil, but it is popular because people believe it is.

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.

Most of the stories you hear about dragons are fodder for fools.

Robert could piss in a cup and men would call it wine, but I offer them cold clear water and they squint in suspicion and mutter to each other about how queer it tastes.

In fact, the biggest misconception is that you can call your API RESTful if its delivering XML or JSON over HTTP. And that misconception and the resulting proliferation of horrible APIs is likely the source of RESTafarian irritation with the application of the term "RESTful" in an API context. But let's be brutally honest. Most interactive systems don't follow this model either.

The little word is has its tragedies; it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger. Whenever I use the word is, except in sheer tautology, I deeply misuse it; and when I discover my error, the world seems to fall asunder and the members of my family no longer know one another.

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.

I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see--and I don't.

He saw his daughter as a kind-hearted, dutiful, but vaguely pitiable soul. David, like many people, had made the mistake of confusing 'meek' with 'weak.

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.