Quotes About Misconception

I left the Rocking Vicars, thinking I was going to be a star in my own right immediately. Everything was going to be wonderful and huge women would get a hold of me and do things to me with raw carrots – you know, shit like that. Of course, it didn't happen quite that way.

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

The map is not the territory," Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads.

Triplets are when four babies are born at the same time, and there are only two Quagmires.

Very often you expect one thing from looking at the outside of it, but when you open it, there's something else entirely.

The map is not the territory," Snicket's chaperone advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads.

I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus."

Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is -- One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.

Scientists are complaining that the new Dinosaur movie shows dinosaurs with lemurs, who didn't evolve for another million years. They're afraid the movie will give kids a mistaken impression. What about the fact that the dinosaurs are singing and dancing?

Everything popular is wrong. ~ OSCAR WILDE

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

And all of this, dependent, closely woven, all of it is deceiving. There are really two kinds of life. There is, as Viri says, the one people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is this other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see.

history textbooks need to disabuse students of the flat-earth myth.

A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Finchè l'immaginazione altrui galopperà per formarsi opinioni errate sulla nostra condotta e giudicarla da superficiali apparenze, la nostra felicità sarà sempre, si può dire, nelle mani del caso.

She had only meant to oppose the too common idea of spirit and gentleness being incompatible with each other.

Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!

If I endeavor to undeceive people as to the rest of his conduct, who will believe me? The general prejudice against Mr. Darcy is so violent that it would be the death of half the good people in Meryton, to attempt to place him in an amiable light. -Chapter 7

She was guilty only of being less rich than he had supposed her to be. Under a mistaken persuasion of her possessions and claims, he had courted her acquaintance in Bath, solicited her company at Northanger, and designed her for his daughter-in-law. On discovering his error, to turn her from the house seemed the best, though to his feelings an inadequate proof of his resentment towards herself, and his contempt of her family.

Pero mientras la gente se deje arrastrar por su imaginación para formarse juicios errados sobre nuestra conducta y la califique basándose en meras apariencias, nuestra felicidad estará siempre a merced del azar