Quotes About Misconception

I had an unsettling feeling that I had been completely mistaken as to the very nature of the world I was in, as if every part of it was something wildly different from what it appeared to be - like discovering that your own mother isn't anyone you've ever seen before, but a stranger in a rubber mask.

That's why Einstein had to remind us, Common sense tells us the earth is flat.

That technology has canceled geography contains just enough merit to be called a plausible fallacy

We see people not as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

For one thing, they did not call themselves Pilgrims (that term was not widely used until about 1840). Nor were they fleeing immediate persecution.

Al come on. The woman's, like, senile,' I said under my breath. 'Last year she thought me and Hammond were a closeted couple.

Winning all those banquet debates had apparently caused Galileo to think that argument was how things were settled in the world. Unfortunately this is never how it happens.

Sabine was now sixteen and old enough to begin doing what any girl like her would." Brazen Mortal crossed her arms over her chest and knowingly said, "Prostitution." "Wrong. Commercial fishing." "Really?" "Noooo," Sabine said. "Fortune-telling.

Wolf, I knew everything before Lizvetta. And it was all wrong.

Why would I assume that the guy wanted to hurt me when nobody's ever tried to hurt me before?

Our vision is often more abstracted by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't? - Damon

Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance

These people [the Christians] watched the Flintstones as if it were a documentary.

I'm not of the religion but I'm educated enough to understand there is a misconception about it globally.

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.

I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -

I blamed the Bible, when its words were not at fault, only the way they're interpretedby those too willingto wield them like chain saws, cutting others off at the knees.

The problem with the prosperity gospel is that it makes prosperity the Gospel. God's word is flawless, however if your interpretation of the word is wrong, your application will be wrong also.

People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.

A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.

The sun thought that Jerusalem was a sea and set in her: a terrible mistake.

Nunca les doy el infierno. Sólo les digo la verdad y ellos piensan que es el infierno. — Harry S. Truman

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.