Quotes About Misconception

And, as Stevie Rae would have said, Kalona was as wrong as manboobs.

you think youseeme but you dont

Even bullets are nothing compared to the ax murderers in people's eyes.

Communication appears to be deceptively easy. However, most of us carry a major misconception about the process: that communication is primarily message sending. Communication does not take place until someone receives the message and understands it as the sender intended. The most eloquent speech or the most beautifully composed letter isn't a successful communication if it misses the mark.

He is nothing but a boy—a little boy!" I am afraid I have visualized you as a man.

The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.

When he did, people across the world would realize that the teachings of all religions did indeed have one thing in common. They were all dead wrong.

I guess I always thought it would be bigger, when a terrible thing happened. Didn't you think so? Doesn't it seem like houses ought to be caving in, and lightning and thunder, and people tearing their hair in the street? I never - I never thought it would be this small, did you?

As was the case with so many young people I encountered these days, I could not tell if the boy was truly retarded or just pitifully ill educated. Most of the population under thirty appears to fall into one or the other category.

How easy it is first to leap to a false conclusion about someone and then to view everything he does in light of that conclusion.

We went wrong by failing to take into account a great truth, namely, that teals are stupid and lazy and perfectly content to stay that way.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

Most women have no characters at all.

Kincaid, there's a reason why stereotypes become stereotypes. It's because they're true. - Harold Sacks

Quería explicar que la gente nunca resultaba ser del todo como uno se imagina que es.

aç?klamak istiyordu; hiç kimsenin tam san?ld??? gibi olmad???n? anlatmak istiyordu.

Is this a kissing book?

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. [ Inigo Montoya ]

You keep that saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

learned that lesson the hard way when his company tried to introduce a third-pound burger at the same price as the McDonald's quarter-pounder. More than half the customers thought they were being ripped off. "Why should we pay the same amount for less meat?" they said.

A study showed that when doctors reckoned themselves "completely certain" about a diagnosis, they were wrong 40% of the time. When a group of students made estimates that they believed had only a 1% chance of being wrong, they were actually wrong 27% of the time.

he loved who he thought she was.

Each man had come to know the other's caricature as a lie.