Quotes About Misconception

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." ~ Mark Twain

Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.

I do so dislike H. G. Wells being accompanied by Wagner, don't you Mr. Ford?" … he was forced to acknowledge the aptness of the phrase. Nazism combines a crassly mechanical futurism with the fuss and fume of a tawdry pseudo-Gothic misconception of the past.

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

About 20 per cent of the population believe themselves to have a food allergy and only about five per cent actually do.

Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.

The possibility has occurred to me that the proper condition of man, which is to say that condition in which he is most admirable, may not be that prosperity, peace, and harmony which I labored to give to Rome." He has founded his empire, in other words, on a misconception.

Christina was also in a gay mood: the paymaster had addressed her as Monsieur! The further we moved eastward, the more often was she taken for a boy. And this not only by Asiatics: in Delhi smart Major Gastrell spoke to her for fifteen minutes before suspecting that she was a woman.

People think you're crazy if you talk about things they don't understand.

Let's face it: most of our children believe that God is happy if they're "good for goodness' sake." We've transformed the holy, terrifying, magnificent, and loving God of the Bible into Santa and his elves.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.

The most palpable facts, are exactly the contrary to what we should expect.

The world knows what you seem; it does not know what you are.

Despite all you may have heard to the contrary, I have never had a ride in a patrol wagon.

Everybody thinks my sister is an angel straight down from heaven, but I know better.

He gains strength from the myth of his wife's incompetence.

von Kluck's cavalry reconnaissance, with that marvelous human capacity to see what you expect to see even if it is not there, duly reported the British to be disembarking at Ostend, Calais, and Dunkirk on August 13.

Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present.

The first thing to be considered, with respect to education, is the object of it. This appears to me to have been generally misunderstood.

How does a blonde turn on the light after sex? She opens the car door.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

My wife got all freaked out when we started doing the reality show because she said she saw all these reality shows, and everyone was getting divorced.

I think it's important to realize that the players who are protesting aren't protesting the anthem. They're not protesting the flag. People kind of move the goalposts on them and try to tell them what they're protesting. But as they keep saying, that's not what they're protesting.