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Quotes About Misbelief

Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.
~ Douglas Adams
You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.
~ George S. Kaufman
The thing about delirium is you think it's great, but it actually isn't.
~ Margaret Atwood
We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
~ Stephen King, Duma Key
People never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
~ Edmund Burke
Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
~ P. T. Barnum
The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead.
~ Charles Nelson Reilly
We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
~ Stephen King
And so began a bizarre situation in which Philby told Moscow the truth and was disbelieved because the truth contradicted Moscow's expectations.
~ Ben Macintyre
fallaciously pessimistic.
~ Steven Pinker
earth shall err concerning them, and they shall be altered from all their ways, they shall err and take them to be gods.
~ Joseph B. Lumpkin
It had been like discovering that Santa Claus was secretly a Nazi.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
La gente está siempre dispuesta a creer lo contrario de lo que cuentas.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
what elaborate lengths we go to fool ourselves)...
~ Padma Lakshmi
You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.
~ Jodi Picoult
One of the leading causes of obesity is the misbelief that, when it comes to juice, '100%' means 'sugar-free.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
False ideas are the greatest obstacle to the reception of the gospel."13 Not pop culture. Not consumerism. Not moral temptation. False ideas.
~ Nancy Pearcey