Quotes About Misattribution

memory's malfunctions can be divided into seven fundamental transgressions or "sins," which I call transience, absent-mindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence.

Few of her achievements have been recognised and, when they are, the credit is invariably given to the men serving her. This is largely due to a basic handicap: that she was a woman and could only rule in the name of her sons-so her precise role has been little known.

I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

I never said most of the things attributed to me. Always check with the Quote Investigator website before posting, like I did when I was alive.

I never said, 'Lady Gaga is a poor imitation of me.' That was a completely made-up quote.

I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented.

When I'm long dead and gone, people will be falsely attributing made-up quotes to me on internet pages and memes.

The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.

I]t contains a great deal that Sun Tzu did not write, and very little indeed of what he did.

Forgetting the existence of Celts, African-Americans and many other branches of the Anglophone world, the French will blame 'les Anglo-Saxons' for whatever is irking them.fn8

20% on detailed planning (Their poor throughput and high lead times were misattributed to faulty estimation, and so, hoping to get a better answer, they were asked to estimate the work in greater detail.)

Too many of our state's native accomplishments are credited elsewhere. First Skynyrd and Alabama, then everyone thinks the Allman Brothers are from Georgia." "They're not?" "South Daytona Beach.

Just because you find a thought somewhere with somebody's name written after it doesn't mean they really said it.

Marie Antoinette is said to have dismissed the plight of the poor by declaring, "Let them eat cake." But there's no evidence the queen ever said it, and plenty of evidence that Jean-Jacques Rousseau did. His autobiographical book, "Confessions," included the phrase about 1767, before Marie Antoinette even got to France. The quote in the original French refers to brioche, which is not really a cake and is better described as an enriched bread roll.

In Surprised by Joy Lewis notes how his father, Albert, was fond of telling anecdotes about Sir John Mahaffy, anecdotes which Lewis later (at Oxford) found attached to Benjamin Jowett. This, alas, is the fate of any great figure: to serve as a convenient magnet for stories or quotations that other people want to perpetuate, however inaccurately.