Quotes About Misconception

They condemn what they do not understand.

Stack, like every man who has never known a woman, believed he knew a great deal about women.

If we allow ourselves to be misled by the heresy of paraphrase, we run the risk of doing even more violence to the internal order of the poem itself. By taking the paraphrase as our point of stance, we misconceive the function of metaphor and meter. We demand logical coherences where they are sometimes irrelevant, and we fail frequently to see imaginative coherences on levels where they are highly relevant.

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

the NATO aircraft that are held to be the worst thing in the world by those who have no idea how bad the world can get.

The other great error in advertising is to expect more out of advertising than there is in it.

But everyone thought you were dead. You didn't write, that's why you're alive now.

He has noticed this: that men who have not met him dislike him, but when they have met him, only some of them do.

It is much easier to believe lies than the truth." "Why?" asked Janna. "Because lies are manufactured to satisfy the emotions. A mother would rather believe her pretty girl lazy than accept the fact that she's a dumb cluck. Germans would rather believe they were stabbed in the back than that they lost a fair fight. And anyone would rather blame someone else for his misfortunes. The truth is hard. Don't fool with it unless you realize that.

It is much easier to believe lies than the truth." "Why?" asked Janna. "Because lies are manufactured to satisfy the emotions. A mother would rather believe her pretty girl lazy than accept the fact that she's a dumb cluck. Germans would rather believe they were stabbed in the back than that they lost a fair fight. And anyone would rather blame someone else for his misfortunes. The truth is hard.

America likes to think Every one can recover from every thing, But about this, Especially, America is wrong.

This is myself. You've always had some idea of me that doesn't exist.

You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.

I'd kind of expected that kids who knew about the Real World wouldn't act like jock dipwads. Guess I was wrong.

The story you think you know is never the real one.

I would then like to know how it comes about that when each piece of a story is true, the whole story turns out to be false?

People have this ridiculous notion that we and animals are somehow on the same level. I blame Disney films. I blame them for a lot of things.

Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.

You always imagine you'll savor these icon-cum-nemeses' undoing. You're always wrong.

People fear what they don't understand.

Remember What Mama used To Say : " You Cant Tell a Book By Its Cover

amazing how boring you can get away with being when you're pretty. No one seems to notice. When you're pretty everyone just assumes you must have a great life. People are so short-sighted, sometimes. People are so stupid. I have a dark past and I have dark thoughts. I do dark things and I scare myself sometimes. I wake in the middle of the night and I've twisted myself

Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip.