Quotes About Misconception

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.

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Why did he always assume Mexico City would be like Phoenix on a smoggy day? Why did no one tell him it would be Madrid

The brain is so wrong, all the time she says, turning to the dark landscape again. Wrong about what time it is, and who people are, and where home is: wrong wrong wrong. The lying brain.

The brain is so wrong, all the time. [...] Wrong about what time it is, and who people are, and where home is: wrong wrong wrong. The lying brain.

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

Throw in "never read books" and you have the dictionary definition of a liberal. Being completely uninformed is precisely how most liberals stay liberal. According

I, personally, have never seen a pirate with more than exactly one earring. I pointed out that if I did get my ears pierced again, probably no one would mistake me for a pirate, but Mom and Dad failed to see the humor in that.

It wasn't at all what I expected. I guess I've seen too many Fawlty Towers reruns with Mom, so I had pictured a run-down place with eccentric characters running around. The Cardington was as modern and comfy as a Holiday Inn.

a significant percentage of the world's Muslims believe that the men who brought down the World Trade Center are now seated at the right hand of God

In Sunday school, they made it sound like the women of the Bible were a bunch of pious schoolmarms—but nothing could be further from the truth.

AMPHISBÆNA  (AMPHISBÆ'NA)   n.s.[Lat.    serpent supposed to have two heads. That the amphisbæna, that is, a smaller kind of serpent, which moveth forward and backward, hath two heads, or one at either extreme, was affirmed by Nicander, and others.Brown'sVulgar Errours,b. iii.

She will be your death. She will be everyone's death." "She has failed most miserably at being 'everyone's death.' She's effectively harmless, Membricus." "No woman is ever harmless!

So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.

Most people think a girl and a guy can't just be friends, there has to be something else going on.

am accustomed to being downgraded by businesspeople, lawyers, engineers, Washington hotshots, various scientists. Even their secretaries, who get their notions of what matters from television, hide their smiles behind their hands and give one another the high sign when I turn up—some incomprehensible goofball.

Humans think they are rational, and they think they understand their reality. But they are wrong on both counts.

Inaccurate worldviews are the only kind there is.

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Here's an example of why the idea that humans are rational is pure nonsense. One of my Twitter followers copied President Trump's inauguration speech and showed it to a "leftist friend," telling him it was President Obama's speech. His friend loved it.

Honor's face turned bright red. Her knuckles went white. "Yes," Honor said. "I understand, Mister Gibbons." Gibbons nodded, making the common mistake of thinking that understanding and agreeing were the same thing.

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

They do not therefore apprehend God as he offers himself, bbut imagine him as they have fashioned him in their own presumption.

You want to know what's on the other side?' Walsh eyed the detective carefully, as if gauging the seriousness of the question. 'Is it seventy-two virgins, like the Muslims believe?' 'That's the good news. The bad news is that they're all guys. It's like being at a boarding school.' 'I knew there had to be a catch.