“ Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics. ”
- Richard Feynman- Copy
- 186
“ There is a popular misconception that film-makers have to look to Hollywood to be commercially successful but this is how we have been conditioned. ”
- Mike Leigh- Copy
- 922
“ 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- Copy
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“ There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 966
“ To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. ”
- Dick Cavett- Copy
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“ Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. ”
- Lionel Trilling- Copy
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“ There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked. ”
- Pamela Anderson- Copy
- 971
“ It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding — in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 853
“ I think one of the conclusions that many Catholics drew from the Second Vatican Council is there're just a lot fewer mortal sins than there used to be. So we don't really have to confess them, and we can make a good act of contrition, as we used to say, and receive communion, and it's fine. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
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“ When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. ”
- Jean Rostand- Copy
- 288
“ In old times, and also in our time among the Indian tribes, psychedelic substances were considered sacred and they were used with the right attitude and in a ritual and spiritual context. And what a difference if we compare it with the careless and irresponsible use of LSD in the streets and in the discotheques of New York City and everywhere in the West… ”
- Albert Hofmann- Copy
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“ Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. ”
- Hesketh Pearson- Copy
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“ Advertising is a ten billion dollar a year misunderstanding with the public. ”
- Chester L. Posey- Copy
- 95
“ There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. ”
- Christopher Morley- Copy
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“ I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions. ”
- Jacqueline Bisset- Copy
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“ We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends. ”
- M. Russell Ballard- Copy
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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- Copy
- 125
“ Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception. ”
- Thomas Sowell- Copy
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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 McGill- Copy
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“ I have no misconceptions about my dentist because when I go to my dentist I see what he does... Nobody can really understand the process of acting because... we don't want them to. ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
- 162
“ Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities. ”
- Warren Ellis- Copy
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“ Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation. ”
- Craig Bruce- Copy
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“ It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly. ”
- Emma Thompson- Copy
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“ A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable. ”
- Lafcadio Hearn- Copy
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