Quotes About Misconception

We have a deeply rooted misconception in our country that unhoused people have done something to deserve their conditions - when the reality is that unhoused people are living the consequences of our government's failure to secure the basic necessities people need to survive.

People have a misconception that the tobacco epidemic is a thing of the past. Tobacco still kills more Americans than any other cause.

Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers.

It's a fallacy that people think that today's teenagers are shallow or somehow less intelligent than in the past.

The image people have of comedians staring defiantly over a stationary line of good taste is simply inaccurate. We don't approach this line, put our toes over it arrogantly and then scamper back to safety. The line doesn't exist.

We were inert targets at which to aim their certainty, and even if we knew they were wrong, the men couldn't even imagine not being right. So many of them would never know what was actually true.

The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.

And the gap between what people think is wrong and what is actually wrong can be quite far indeed.

You see us wrong, who see with your eyes, And hear nothing true though straining your years. What thieves of wonder are these poor senses.

Q: How do you confuse a blonde? A: You don't. They're born that way.

Q: What do you call an eternity? A: Four blondes at a four-way stop.

The fact that we've heard a claim repeated over and over again doesn't make it correct. But it can lead us to accept this claim as correct even when it's not, because we can confuse a statement's familiarity with its accuracy

You think I'm some inbred trailer-trash hick that watches the Springer show?

They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst.

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

For a long time a lot of people thought I'm British, because I'd done so many roles with English accents. People probably still think it. Or they don't think anything.

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that.

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

I don't like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don't know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they're so far off a lot of the time.

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong!

I think that's another misconception, [that] our quarterbacks run all the time. Quarterbacks can help you in the run game, they complement what you do, but it's a running back-driven run game.

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.