Misconception Quotes

• The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

  Mark Twain

  Knowledge, People, World

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• Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

  George Soros

  Reality, Air, Successful Investing

  BuzzFlash interview, February 25, 2004.

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• We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

  Deb Caletti

  Simple, Missing, Simple Beauty

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• Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stupid, Silly, Ignorance

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• I think the biggest misconception about me is people really don't know who I really am. They see the party side of me, they see the crazy side of me. But I also have a laid-back side. You know, I'm chill, down to earth. If you want to grab a cup of coffee and just talk about life, I can do that.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Crazy, Party, Coffee

  "Snooki From The Jersey Shore Talks to Meghan McCain". Interview with Meghan McCain, www.thedailybeast.com. July 11, 2010.

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• Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Criticism, Critics

  "Aveux et anathemes (Anathemas and Admirations)". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1987.

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• Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

  George Soros

  Views, Play, Roles

  George Soros (2007). “Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror”, p.22, PublicAffairs

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• Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, Deception, Suffering

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.442, Discovery House

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• Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Past, Mind, Use

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• The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

  Billy Idol

  Stupid, Idols, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Common Sense, Age, Collections

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• There aren't really any actual misconceptions, just dumb people versus good, honest people.

  Ted Nugent

  People, Dumb, Honest

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• It became a lucrative misconception, that movement in any direction is progression

  Canibus

  Movement, Progression

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• A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul.

  Augustus Toplady

  Thinking, Power, Men

  Augustus Montague TOPLADY (1837). “The Works of Augustus Toplady ... A New Edition, Complete in One Volume. Printed Verbatim from the First Edition of His Works, 1794”, p.546

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• Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he's so sincere. Because, it is possible to be sincerely wrong. We can only judge truth by truth and sincerity by sincerity.

  Jim Rohn

  Truth, Mistake, Judging

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 24, 2015

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• There is a common misconception that intelligence is synonymous with IQ. "Intelligence Quotient" or IQ was originally built to predict the academic aptitude of schoolchildren, and is nothing more than a measure of the skills needed for academic success. Intelligence, however, is a much broader concept that encompasses a person's level of skill for any of a number of subjects.

  Justin Menkes

  Common, Academic

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I've never had a stupid student in my life. I never look down on my students. I never thought, "Look at these people." I might argue with them and I think that some of them might have misconceptions - that they might be infected by the intellectual laziness that is the foundation of American popular culture, and of capitalism, if you wish. But part of my job as a teacher is to work with that - against that.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Teacher, Jobs, Stupid

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

  Laura Riding

  Believe, Magic, Doe

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• The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Change, Men, Thinking

  David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1959). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”

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• A lot of people get a misconception
  And start drifting in the wrong direction
  Miss Goody Two Shoes see you later
  I ain't got time and you ain't nuthin but a playa hater.

  Rappin' 4-Tay

  Shoes, Two, People

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• I believe the most dangerous misconception is the idea our money and possessions belong to us, not God. Many of our problems begin when we forget that God is the Boss of the universe. But in fact He is more than the boss; He is the owner.

  Randy Alcorn

  Believe, Boss, Forget

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

  Alva Myrdal

  Victory, Age, Nuclear

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. Nobel Lecture Disarmament, Technology, And The Growth In Violence by Alva Myrdal 1982 Nobel Peace Prize December 11, 1982.

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• I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Reality, People, Public Image

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Truth is the unknown from moment to moment, our minds must be always alert with full attention, free from prejudices, misconceptions, so it can be really receptive.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Mind, Prejudice, Attention

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• The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

  George Henry Lewes

  Mean, Self, Intellectual

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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