Quotes About Misconception

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

Actually, the Bible doesn't say anything about masturbation," I said, adding, "unless you count, 'Whatever you find to do with your hand, verily I say, do it with all your might.'" He looked perplexed. I smiled. "It's a joke. The Bible doesn't say anything about it.

È un errore madornale credere che i pettegolezzi interessino più alle donne che agli uomini.

A common caricature of Catholic teaching is that it rejects the notion of salvation by grace and affirms instead that salvation is simply by works. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Haven't you heard – fat isn't the killer any more. Now I can eat more pork than Kermit.

It isn't what we don't know that gets us into trouble. It's what we know for sure that just isn't so.

The Egyptians got it wrong. They wrapped the dead. They did not realize I wrapped the living.

Photographs and videos are often misperceived and can be easily doctored, and lights in the sky have many prosaic explanations: aerial flares, lighted balloons, experimental aircraft, helicopters, clouds, swamp gas, or even the planet Venus, which, if you are driving on an undulating highway away from city lights, really does appear to be a bright light following your car.

I like Alice Cooper too, even after I learned that she is a he.

ik wist alleen dat het een streek is waar confit de canard wordt gegeten; en confit de canard leek me niet goed te verenigen met een burgeroorlog. Maar ik kon me vergissen.

The press always seem to have the attitude that the investigation team owes them a profile. This is a misconception. The profile belongs to the investigating officer as it is his aid. It is an instrument by which he can eliminate suspects and concentrate on those who fit the profile. To release an accurate profile and a lot of details about a person when one is close to apprehending him could always provoke him to run.

Feminist just can't help but lie because there is no such thing as the truth. That's what they tell us but no one really knows whether it's true.

As you can see, there are a few problems: 1.      I'm no plumber, nor do I have a moustache and red clothes. That eliminates Job #1.

For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.

Sometimes ... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. (Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan)

I don't think it's true that blondes have more fun... Trust me, it is not true!

Talvolta si può cadere nell'equivoco di credere che certa letteratura induca a certi comportamenti, quando è vero esattamente il contrario. È sempre la domanda a precedere la risposta. [...] La letteratura (anche quella disegnata) ha la possibilità di mantenere circoscritte nell'ambito della fantasia quelle ossessioni che altrimenti troverebbero un inevitabile sfogo nella realtà. [...] La censura è sempre dannosa.

I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.

It sounds odd, but cheerful is very hard to find in Los Angeles. I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle?

You have believed very wrongly, and I will be bound that a learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.

Idolatria e' scambiare il mezzo con il fine.

We have come to mistake information for knowledge.

Do you know what a delusion is? It's a false belief sustained despite clear evidence to the contrary.