Quotes About Misconception

Hope is often misunderstood. People tend to think that it is simply passive wishful thinking: I hope something will happen but I'm not going to do anything about it. This is indeed the opposite of real hope, which requires action and engagement

those who bother to get under the layers of fat know that not only does there beat a heart of gold, I'm also bloody good fun to be around, providing I'm in the right mood. But nobody really bothers to look for that, nobody really bothers to look beneath the surface appearance.

You think you know this story. You do not.

And the deep thrumming of the forest that too many people mistake for silence.

A strong leader is considered a wrong leader when that leader is female.

Happens to me all the time...People are always underestimating my dumbness.

OKAY, SO HERE'S the thing. My mother's worst fear has come true. I'm a nymphomaniac. I lust after a lot of men. Of course, maybe that's because I don't actually actually have sex with any. And some of my lustings probably aren't

Grandma was in her mid-seventies and didn't look a day over ninety.

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

Unfortunately, many parents reject helmets for their kids out of a mistaken perception that helmets are unsafe for children.

For a while, I tried to masquerade as somewhat of a hippie because I was under the impression that was the kind of guy girls would like. I was pretty unsuccessful because I liked the idea of camping more than actually camping. I did go to a Grateful Dead concert, but I was pretty bored.

A lot of people have the misconception that I decided to become an actor when Lily became famous and have accused me of jumping on her bandwagon. But that's completely untrue.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

There was a story saying I didn't like contemporary comedians, but it's completely untrue - a lot of them are very dear friends of mine.

When you read Western press, you probably get a feeling that all Russian press is censored, there's no freedom at all, we can't say whatever, which is absolutely, absolutely, completely untrue.

I know plenty of people my age that will never get married because they genuinely believe the false cultural meme that marriage has sadly become. There's only one problem. It's completely untrue.

I think a misconception among many non-religious people is that anyone with a strong faith is, in all ways and at all times, blindly consistent, unwavering, unquestioning.

The strange thing about people considering me upbeat is that I'm really not.

You know the phrase 'Jesus laughed' isn't ever used in the Gospels. So, most people walk away with the idea that Jesus is a pretty serious guy, pretty sour faced most of the time, pretty upset at what's going on around Him.

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.

The kind of films I do, people assume that I am not a fashionable person, but I am an urban girl, and I have always been fashionable.

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

Look. Let's just say he's in Tabitha's line of work. Okay? (Selena) Ladies' lingerie? He hardly looks the type to sell that. (Sunshine)