Quotes About Misconception

I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren't there.

If this was love, love had been overrated.

Why should I be afraid of you?' He was still laughing. He said 'Maybe you think I'll think you are a missionary and I'll eat you.' I said 'I don't think that anyway. If more Africans had eaten more missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

I think that everyone thought that the Depression like everything else, was for the white-folks, so it had nothing to do with them.

Despite all evidence to the contrary, Grandmère believes that Ron Weasley, not Voldemort, is the villain of the Harry Potter series.

French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.

But he's wrong, because my dad definitely has testosterone—at least one testicle full—

Am I the only one who recalls that Seth Turner used to think trees give off cold air because when you stand in the shade it's cooler than in the sun?

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. —Winston Churchill (1874–1965), British statesman

I thought that being king meant I didn't have to kill people myself. I see know that was another misconception.

I have acute pancreatitis. I thought it was just average looking.

For some reason, Eliza had always thought Alexander Hamilton would be dark-haired, but he was in fact a ginger

This was what she hated most about the on-line world, the shadows as much as the bright lights of the legal nets: too many men assumed that the nets were exclusively their province, and were startled and angry to find out that it wasn't...rather than ever admit fear, they walked with raised hackles, looking for a fight.

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.

Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.

One comes across white men occasionally who suffer under the delusion that China is not a civilized country. Such men have forgotten what constitutes civilization.

Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false. To know the truth is more difficult than most men suppose, and to act with ruthless determination in the belief that truth is the monopoly of their party is to invite disaster.

We let the human image of Christ mislead us into downsizing Him. "If He'd just stoop a little and we stood on our tiptoes, we'd be just about side by side. One at His left. One at His right." Negatory, good buddy. When the Word became flesh to dwell among us, human flesh wrapped its way around "the fulness of the Godhead bodily" (Col. 2:9 KJV).

The world sees christians as people who use faith as a crutch. How wrong they are. The biggest crutch of all is deceit.

Boneless skinless chicken breasts don't give a damn about their bad reputation. They don't care that you think of them as pale, dry, and rubbery.

I think Rush have always had this reputation, particularly to non-fans, of being an ultra-serious and cerebral group when, in fact, the reverse is true. We don't take ourselves seriously at all. Sure, we take our music seriously, but that's altogether different.

I have a bad reputation, I guess.

I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation.