It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I’ve taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, ‚The Hornet’s Nest,‘ I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

My first popular book, ‚A Brief History of Time,‘ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it’s popular, it’s not culture.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it’s the most ridiculous concept.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

Isn’t it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation – or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays – is like a blind man’s dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.