Quotes About Misconception

People will print what they will capturing but try to give the real image through positive thinking for that you will prove them how they are wrong!

It's not what we don't know that hurts. It's what we know that ain't so.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Much of the tablecloth was a series of grey smudges outlined in a large, irregular patch of yellow that looked distressingly like a urine stain.

Although the Romans knew Chinese silk, they knew not China. They believed that silk grew directly on the mulberry tree, not realizing that the leaves were merely the worm's home and its food.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

Leroy unscrewed the hose from its faucet and prepared to put it away in the basement, thinking: Nobody can put nothing over on Rhoda, I'll say that much for her. And nobody can put nothing over on me, neither. I guess Rhoda and me are just alike. But in this he was mistaken, as we shall see in time, for Rhoda was able to put into action the things that he could only turn over in his mind as fantasies.

Thus 'how do we know…?' is transformed into 'by what authority do we claim…?' The latter question is a chimera that may well have wasted more philosophers' time and effort than any other idea. It converts the quest for truth into a quest for certainty (a feeling) or for endorsement (a social status). This misconception is called justificationism.

99% of all lawyers give the rest of them a bad name.

I now realize that I should blame myself when men indulge in such wildly wishful thinking that they see a sexual invitation in a simple smile.

Assume makes an ass out of you and me - p.239

If you give them a God made in their own image, I guarantee they'll accept Him. But He won't be the God who saves.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don't believe in, we quickly discover that I don't believe in that god, either.

Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.

Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day.

People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with.

I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.

A lot of people think Heaven is sitting around on a cloud playing a harp all day, doing nothing except being holy - and they don't find it very appealing! Thank God that is not what Heaven is like!

Most Christians when asked what is the essence of the Christian faith will say it is all in the rules to be acceptable by God. That is anti-Christian, but they don't know that.

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

Good Christian people who wouldn't dream of misbehaving will not catch AIDS.

Any opening is good enough, if its reputation is bad enough.

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.