Quotes About Misconception

While it is absurd to blame Marx for something he did not foresee and certainly would have condemned if he had foreseen it, the distanced between Marx's predicted communist society and the form taken by 'communism' in the twentieth century may in the end be traceable to Marx's misconception of the flexibility of human nature.

returning to Russia, where he met his first wife, Ekaterina. She thought Heinrich [Schliemann] was richer than he was, and when she discovered her mistake, she withheld conjugal rights. This had the desired effect, and he cornered the market in indigo, to such effect that Ekaterina bore him three children.

Office gossip annoyed him because it always proved better than the truth.

Does he think the job of a librarian is so simple, so empty of content, that anyone can step up and do it for a thank-you and a cup of tea? Does he think that all a librarian does is to tidy the shelves?

L'immagine che abbiamo l'uno dell'altro. Strati e strati d'incomprensione. L'immagine che abbiamo di noi stessi. Vana. Presuntuosa. Completamente distorta. Ma noi tiriamo dritto e viviamo di queste immagini. «Lei è così, lui è così, io sono così. È andata così per questi motivi…» Basta.

He asks the 80 students to respond based on their 'gut feeling'. Again, students are given five options, ranging from 'less than 1%' to 'above 40%'. About half of them believe the true answer is less than 5%, of which plenty go for the 'less than 1%' option. Only 1 in 6 get it right, picking the highest option: it turns out that the true figure is 41%. He invites those people – 13 in total – to stand up.

Don't forget: there is no homosexuality in China!

We believe in the wrong things, that's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

3. You think that looks like a heart? If you do, that's only because you've never seen scrotum.

She is the weakness you think of as strength while I am the strength you have no idea is there.

Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

That's the second time you've presumed to know my thoughts and been wrong about it.

I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

Dad said that the guy who can play guitar is going to be the life of the party. He's confusing life with death.

I've finished answering the letters Alyssa gave me a few weeks back. One was from a woman who wrote that when deaf people get their hearing, they're always surprised that the sun makes no noise. They naturally assumed it would roar, though if it did, you'd think it might have been mentioned somewhere along the way, in songs at least. Maybe that's what they thought was meant by "I was awoken by the sun.

It's not what you don't know that hurts you; it's what you think you know that isn't so.

He must have made that before he died.

Some people believe that too much information is a dangerous thing, but it is only this idea that is dangerous.

I don't want everyone to think I'm just the girl who acts.

I have a really adaptable face, but when I am just being me, people always think I am younger than I am.

One of the guys I used to watch was Georges St. Pierre. Watching him, I thought this guy is awesome, he's doing all these amazing things... I was 16 at the time and I thought he was like 32, and it turned out he was like 21-22.

Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.

It's interesting: when you're kind of 'known' for being a writer, people don't think you've done anything else.