Quotes About Misconception

Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

Personally, I know nothing about sex, because I have always been married.

What seems to be a stone is a drama.

The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.

Ranulf Higden, a Benedictine monk who mapped the world about 1350, claimed that Africa contained one-eyed people who used their feet to cover their heads. A geographer in the next century announced that the continent held people with one leg, three faces, and the heads of lions. In 1459, an Italian monk, Fra Mauro, declared Africa the home of the roc, a bird so large that it could carry an elephant through the air.

We know from a later scrap of oral tradition that Europeans were often believed to have hoofs; not having seen shoes before, some Africans along the river thought them part of white anatomy.

I do listen fairly well, though, a talent people often mistake for trustworthiness.

Some readers might think that because I am so successful, I have never made a mistake.

It is a quirk of the age that the easiest way to start a friendship with someone is generally by asking them to get undressed.

It is common to assume that we are dealing with a highly intelligent book when we cease to understand it.

I wanted to say that the literature may say that, but that literature doesn't.

You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.

We mistake the horizon we see for the parameters of the world.

In fact the English word 'demon' is full of a value judgement that is wrongly attributed to the words rakshasa and asura.

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?

It doesn't bother me when someone calls me a 'dumb blonde.' I'm neither dumb or blonde.

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Then there's the biggest problem of them all – the problem of being in an Audi TT when you are not called Angela. I do not know why it can be driven by only people named Angela, but that's a fact and there's nothing we can do about it. If you have a TT and you aren't called Angela, you have the wrong car.

Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster.

I've asked people why they think God would probably not use them to share the gospel with someone on a "bad" day. A typical reply is, "I wouldn't be worthy," or "I wouldn't be good enough." Such a reply reveals an all-too-common misconception of the Christian life: the thinking that, although we are saved by grace, we earn or forfeit God's blessings in our daily lives by our performance.

You're not dumb, or stupid, just thoroughly wrong.

Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn't make it a biscuit.