Quotes about Misconception

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, and you think it's a pig, it's a pig.

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.

those questions at sufficient length. If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine,—which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity,—it is the key to many reservations. I felt convinced that if I described Miss Havisham's as my eyes had seen it, I should not be understood.

David Copperfield from head to foot! Calls a house a rookery when there's not a rook near it, and takes the birds on trust, because he sees the nests!

It's most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when they are alone. The world has grown so suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

He had a tattoo of a bird on his neck done by someone with an ill-formed notion of their appearance.

There's a lot of things look better at a distance

You know the phrase 'Jesus laughed' isn't ever used in the Gospels. So, most people walk away with the idea that Jesus is a pretty serious guy, pretty sour faced most of the time, pretty upset at what's going on around Him.

People take everything out of proportion. Everybody loves to stir something. If you listen to everything you hear, there's a lot of different directions you'd be leaning.

The whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.