Quotes About Misconception

There are three kinds of people: those who are good at math and those who aren't.

Hardly anyone thought that the threats against the Jews were meant seriously," wrote Carl Zuckmayer, a Jewish writer. "Even many Jews considered the savage anti-Semitic rantings of the Nazis merely a propaganda device, a line the Nazis would drop as soon as they won governmental power and were entrusted with public responsibilities.

It was one of those things that gave you a false feeling of soldering.

was a gunner's mate," said Marty. It was a lie. He had really been a chief yeoman at the time of the mutiny. But he thought now, always, that he had been a gunner's mate. "Ah. I thought you were a first-class yeoman," Karkov said. "I always get my facts wrong. It is the mark of the journalist.

To understand is to forgive. That's not true. Forgiveness has been exaggerated.

it's a big misconception: the wisdom of the old people. They don't become wiser. Just more cautious.

I point out to Ben that, contrary to popular belief, taking action is not always the best course.

Experience teaches us that when one hears the doorbell ring it is because there is never anyone there.

A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding it.

I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

Du hast den Himmel mit den Sternen verwechselt, die sich nachts im Teich spiegeln.

Most people live under the misconception that it takes a long time to change. This is not true. It can take a long time to prepare to change or to decide to change or even to want to change. Change itself, however, happens in a heartbeat.

Everyone always looked at the cover and never took the time to read the book.

Marcia listened to the comments and wondered why people thought that wearing ExtraOrdinary Wizard robes made her deaf.

I don't want any gimmicks. The fact that people think that Whack is a gimmick is so crazy.

There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals. But that's not what Darwinian means to a biologist; it's whatever leads to reproductive success.

I can remember that on the shelves at home, there were these books by Thomas Wolfe. 'Look Homeward Angel' and 'Of Time and the River.' 'Of Time and the River' had just come out when I was aware of his name. My parents had a hard time convincing me that he was no kin whatsoever. My attitude was, 'Well, what's he doing on the shelf, then?'

If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.

Whenever we tell the truth, nobody believes us. We lie, and people take it as etched-in-stone fact.

Whenever I tell people in Berkeley, Calif., where I live, that I'm headed to the beach in Alabama, they are shocked. Most people outside of the Gulf Coast have no idea that Alabama has beaches - even though if you look at a map of Alabama, there is a part of it that looks as if it should belong to Florida.

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

I'm not very proud of coming from a place that everyone thinks is this pure green country whereas, in reality, all our lakes and waterways are poison.

When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.

People think I work a lot more than I do. I think because you're in people's living rooms every day they're like: 'Oh my God, you're always on the telly,' but it's like, 'Yeah but you always have to go to work every day nine till five whereas I finish at 12:30 P.M. and then I'm home.'