misconception quotes

21 quotes

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.

Christopher Hitchens

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Margaret Atwood

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

Richard Branson

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.

Mark Zuckerberg

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

Robert Kiyosaki

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

Bill Gates

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Bob Dylan

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Ronald Reagan

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.

Kanye West

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

Margaret Atwood

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.

Kanye West

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.

Angelina Jolie

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

Stephen Hawking

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

Edmund Burke

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Douglas Adams

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

David Hare

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

Mark Twain

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.

Abraham Lincoln