Quotes About Misconception

She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with no writing inside it.

What is believed in society, is not always the equivalent of what is true;

They thought he was only what they could see. A nice boy but a bit of a goof, a bit of a show-off. Not the brightest star in the universe; not a numbers person, but you couldn't have everything you wanted and at least he wasn't a total washout.

Miss Scace died years ago." "Appearances can be deceptive. She only looks dead.

Although many believe that technology automatically enables more realistic expression, I believe that is just not correct.

By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean, I wasn't born until 1961, and I grew up in Indiana.

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

I wonder why people like to believe I'm high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

Miss?" She wasn't a "Miss"; she was well over forty, but the old ones loved being mistaken for young meat.

But the truth is I didn't really think she had it in her. And being so wrong about her makes me wonder now how often I am utterly wrong about myself. And how wrong she might have been about her mother, how wrong he might have been about his father, how much of family life is a vast web of misunderstandings, a tinted and touched-up family portrait, an accurate representation of fact that leaves out only the essential truth.

They always seemed to think that a horse was something like a steam-engine, only smaller. At any rate, they seemed to think that if they only pay for it, a horse is bound to go just as far, and just as fast, and with just as heavy a load as they please.

When people say they are angry about "immigration," in other words, they are not always talking about something they have lived and experienced. They are talking about something imaginary, something they fear.

who had taken a violent fancy to me, mistaking me for something vastly better than I was.

Du bist doch eine echte Rabenmutter.

So often lately he'd come to realize that things were not as they seemed. There were hidden facets to everything. You'd think you had what you wanted in your grasp and, when you looked closely, it wasn't what it had seemed to be from a distance.

nonsenses to them that reminded her of

What was presumed and what was actually known were two entirely different things.

Yes, I was surprised about her myself. I had always considered her to be proper enough, if somewhat light-headed. It shows how one can be deceived." "Because she was killed?" Caroline said with a lift of amazement in her voice. "Precisely.

We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast as the universe; which means endless.

It's always been pride. The History of the Mayfair Witches was pride. But this came to me wrapped in the mysteries of science. We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast as the universe; which means endless. And I knew this, I knew but I forgot. That was my mistake.

I mean it's a concept born out of moral idiocy, this idea of love!