Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old misconception quotes, misconception sayings, and misconception proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.Alfred North Whitehead
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There's a common misconception that wealth is a fixed pie, and that therefore for one person to have a lot of wealth requires somebody else to have less (the narrative often goes that wealthy people stole their wealth from poor and middle class people) ... [but] wealth can grow, so that even if someone's percentage of the pie remains the same, they will benefit from that individual slice getting bigger.Ian Tartt
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.Emil Cioran
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THE MISCONCEPTION: You are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is. THE TRUTH: You are as deluded as the rest of us, but that's OK, it keeps you sane.David McRaney
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There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.Norman Mailer
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It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity.Ted Chiang
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Every misconception is a poison: there are no harmless misconceptions.Leo Tolstoy
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It became a lucrative misconception, that movement in any direction is progression.Canibus
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There is no offense by which we are excited to a livelier or more just indignation, than by the misinterpretation of our own motives.F. Wayland
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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. Louis Kronenberger
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.Bertrand Russell
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Misconceptions are like cockroaches: you have no idea where they came from, but they're everywhere—often where you don't expect them—and they're impervious to nuclear weapons.Alex Reinhart
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The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding. Eric Parslow
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.Edgar Allan Poe
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The final portrait is often furthest from the truth.Dave Cullen
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Nothing is more dangerous for a new truth than an old misconception.Goethe
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Why is it that there is this misconception that dark equals good. That only applies to chocolate.Rhys Bowen
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The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.Kathryn Schulz
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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
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Only misconceptions need to be supported by elaborate arguments. Truth can always stand alone.Leo Tolstoy
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Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.Raheel Farooq
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The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.Tim Ferriss
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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.Mark Twain
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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
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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
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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
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In a society that judges self-worth on productivity, it's no wonder we fall prey to the misconception that the more we do, the more we're worth.Ellen Stern
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Any man who knows all the answers most likely misunderstood the questions.Anonymous
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To feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to visit the ill in the hospital—these are acts of mercy, but there is one charitable deed which cannot be compared to them: to free your brother from misconception.Leo Tolstoy
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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. Lionel Trilling