Quotes About Misconception

Well, we never expected this!" they all say. "No one liked her. They all said she was pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of her tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdainful, cantankerous, and scornful. But when you meet her, she is strangely meek, a completely different person altogether!" How embarrassing! Do they really look upon me as a dull thing, I wonder? But I am what I am.

Scratch a "libertarian" these days, and you will find...a leftist.

Things aren't always what they seem, are they?

Jesus only appeared to people who believed in him. Answer: the accounts make it clear that Thomas and Paul do not belong to this category; and actually none of Jesus's followers believed, after his death, that he really was the Messiah, let alone that he was in any sense divine.

Saul had been absolutely right in his devotion to the One God, but absolutely wrong in his understanding of who that One God was and how his purposes would be fulfilled.

Literalism involves a fundamental misconception of the mental processes of biblical man and ignorance of his modes of self-expression. It thus misrepresents the purport of the narrative, obscures the meaningful and enduring in it and destroys its relevancy.

the great American saga, as taught, excludes the very pertinent fact that after the 1630s, less than half came to Massachusetts for religious reasons.

False ideas are the greatest obstacle to the reception of the gospel."13 Not pop culture. Not consumerism. Not moral temptation. False ideas.

You know what they say about "truth" and "the appearance of truth" being opposites.

When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

Many people have grown up with the notion that cow's milk is a healthful beverage for children (or adults). I would encourage you to set this idea aside.

Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.

Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.

Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?

good from far but far from good as the saying goes

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

Niente può essere più lontano dalla verità.

Is that true, Ruth?' Mrs Quinty asked, eyes enormous and brows lifted, missing altogether the point of stories.

Reading about Japan in the West is often like looking at a funhouse mirror through a kaleidoscope.

Her uncle saw plots under every bench but it didn't make him wrong.

Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.

Het gevaarlijke idee is niet het valse, maar het gedeeltelijk juiste.

The Great Illusion.

She's married, too. Arch, I'll bet she's one of these rich bitches can't live with their husbands.