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Quotes About Misconception

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't? - Damon
~ Unknown
The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.
~ Van Morrison
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
~ Josh Billings
They got so accustomed to the false alarms that when she did eventually die, they did not realize it, and she lay there twenty minutes, serene in my embrace, smiling blankly at me.
~ Darren Shan
We don't grow fangs, you idiot!
~ Darren Shan
Toby's mom believed that tofu had a near-miraculous ability to masquerade as any other food -- that if a lump of tofu was shaped like something, it would also taste like that thing. Thanksgiving in Toby's house was a nightmare.
~ Dave Barry
1. The Amazing Race 2. I Thought This Show Was Gonna Be About Aryans 3. Oh. (Joe O'Neill, from Opium)
~ Dave Eggers
But then again, you could never underestimate the stupidity of some people.
~ David Baldacci
Look at social media. I could post something about saving orphans and I'd be attacked as a sex-trafficking pedophile. People are such animals online.
~ David Baldacci
eighty pounds; hardly any of it was fat. Most people looking only
~ David Baldacci
There is no such thing as a social crack user.
~ David Carr
Jumping to Conclusions. This is where you jump to painful and upsetting conclusions that aren't really supported by the facts. There are two common versions of this distortion:
~ David D. Burns
It's the easiest thing in the world to judge things by appearances, Ce'Nedra," she said, "and it's usually wrong.
~ David Eddings
Una vez, equivocadamente pensamos que nuestra propia cautividad era una libertad. Igual y erróneamente, también consideramos el servir a Cristo como una pérdida. Pero la verdad llegó a resultar exactamente lo contrario de lo que habíamos pensado antes.
~ David F. Wells
That what appears to be egoism so often isn't.
~ David Foster Wallace
I can't think anyone really believes that today's so-called 'information society' is just about information. Everyone knows it's about something else, way down.
~ David Foster Wallace
Y tomaba mi silencio por aprobación. La esencia del abismo era que ella creía que no existía ningún abismo
~ David Foster Wallace
Troeltsch's so dumb he thinks a manila folder's a Filipino contortionist.
~ David Foster Wallace
Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
~ William Shakespeare
Well, some folks figger as how I'm long dead, even whilst they're talkin' to my face.
~ William W. Johnstone
Truth sometimes does not matter, Quinn. There are those who have decided what they think your brother is, and nothing will persuade them differently, truth be damned.
~ William W. Johnstone
She assured me that it wasn't so much that she didn't like me but thought I was a featherbrain, her mother's lollipop, sleepwalking through an embarrassing hustle obvious as the Turk con.
~ Woody Allen
Skillful marketing has made carbohydrate consumption a religion among athletes," he'd fume. "They believe that you cannot get energy from anywhere but carbs." The same foods Noakes had assured people would make them stronger and faster were a slow-acting poison making them fatter, weaker, and more prone to heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, and dementia.
~ Christopher McDougall