Quotes About Misconception

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!

The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a socialist, for example?' Nobody can really give you a good answer.

We have been taught to "just eat a balanced diet." We have been taught wrong. The truth is natural healing works.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

The stupid thing I incorrectly believed for a long time is that I believed for a long time that some politicians could sometimes tell the truth.

Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.

Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

Nothing can be further than the truth.

The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

Don't believe the hype that black North Carolinians are not voting. We've heard this time and time again. It's just not the truth.

Argument is not always truth.

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

People presume just because you're a bigger bloke that you wouldn't be physically fit or up for the fight, but that couldn't be further from the truth.

The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.

I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop music.

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.

I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.

People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it. 1924-1926)

Impression forms opinion, opinion deforms truth!