Quotes About Misconception

They could be mistaken for a father and daughter who liked to carry Glocks.

Not too long ago, the man who was then the president of Iran was quoted as saying that Jews descended from monkeys and pigs.

when chance is involved, people's thought processes are often seriously flawed.

Obviously it can be a mistake to assign brilliance in proportion to wealth. We cannot see a person's potential, only his or her results, so we often misjudge people by thinking that the results must reflect the person.

Again, the first o in borogoves is pronounced like the o in borrow. I have heard people try to give it the sound of the o in worry. Such is Human Perversity.

imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.

People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.

It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.

Creen que me conocen, pero no es así.

Emma. He smiled in the darkness, thinking what a fool he'd made of himself. Because of Chloe, he'd assumed he was in a whorehouse, and he'd taken Emma for a fresh young flower in the madam's bouquet. Instead she was a librarian, and there was every likelihood that no man had ever laid a hand on her. Steven

With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority's falsehood as truth, could be fatal.

Everything popular is wrong.

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.

If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!

The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.

As the saying goes, Bruce Jenner is a millionaire, and Mark Spitz is a dentist. It's the wrong sport.

There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is, or at least what they say they think one is.

Consequently, we find it convenient to be misled by the inadequacies of language and to believe (not always, of course, but just when it suits us) that things, persons and events are as completely distinct and separate one from another as the words, by means of which we think about them.

is the havoc which ensues when a man with an idealistic misconception of life born of a cloistered and emotionally deprived upbringing experiences the full, sensual impact of human passion.

But just because somebody has lots of sweets does not mean that he has stolen them. One thing, you see, does not always lead to another.

It was always the strongest men who were the first to cry, thought Mma Ramotswe. Some people said it was the other way round, but they were wrong, she told herself; they were simply wrong. (To the Land of Long Lost Friends)