Quotes About Misconception

The stereotype is that a poet shoots his load at 25 years old and goes around the rest of his life doddering.

PLATITUDE. An idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call.

He says that we missed our chance to explain communism with all its horrors and labor camps and now a whole generation just takes it as a "lifestyle".

I believed, as so many people do, that it is possible to exercise more and eat less and keep it up for a lifetime. That's the conventional wisdom, and it's the biggest lie in health.

People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

All geniuses die young.

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

humans tend to blame cats for things that aren't really the cat's fault.

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

I read in that Voyages in China that the Chinese say a white man smells like a corpse.

A common misconception held that midi-chlorians were Force-carrying particles, when in fact they functioned more as translators, interlocutors of the will of the Force.

This belief in a Southern Unionist majority turned out to be a delusion.

I think he was a gangster." "Why you say that?" Miss Izi asked. "He had a lot of pockmarks on his face." "That's nothing," Miss Izi said. "That could be from learning to use a fork.

Sometimes when you're at your most certain, that's when everything you know is wrong.

What?" says Kosgrov. "You think I won't lay you out just because you're stuck in a wheelchair, funny boy?" "Yeah," I say. "Pretty much." Turns out I'm pretty wrong.

The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.

What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound.

People assume that because you are on TV you must be a millionaire, but unfortunately it doesn't work like that.

Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.

Since Kate Middleton came around, some people think I'm related to her, but unfortunately, there's no connection.

Actors are like Swiss Army knives - we're ready to use any lever at any moment. But I learned long ago that, unfortunately, this industry only sees the one thing sticking out that they know us from, and that's the only thing they can imagine.

It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It's hard to explain.

I always thought that consuming ghee is unhealthy and leads to putting on too much weight, but I was proved wrong.