Misapprehension Quotes

#1. Under the pitiful misapprehension that it would make them "better," these Hill Negroes were breaking their backs trying to imitate white people.

Malcolm X

#2. Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.

James Harvey Robinson

#3. At these the fellow-passengers laughed, except the solitary boy bearing the key and ticket, who,
regarding the kitten with his saucer eyes, seemed mutely to say: All
laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no
laughable thing under the sun.

Thomas Hardy

#4. Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#5. But Josef, like many boys of nineteen, was under the misapprehension that his heart had been broken a number of times, and he prided himself on the imagined toughness of that organ.

Michael Chabon

#6. All you need is to stop searching outside for what can be found only within. Set your vision right before you operate. You are suffering from acute misapprehension . Clarify your mind, purify your heart, sanctify your life - this is the quickest way to a change in your world.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#7. Whenever anyone criticized me I felt certain that I had been living under the most dreadful misapprehension. I always accepted the attack in silence, though inwardly so terrified as almost to be out of my mind.

Osamu Dazai

#8. If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That is the absolutely staggering to me misapprehension.

Stephen Fry

#9. When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based on a hair-raising misapprehension of the nature of existence.

Peter Wessel Zapffe

#10. There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'

Charles Francis Richter

#11. It's remarkable the logic we'll build around a misapprehension.

Sloane Crosley

#12. Propaganda analysis can contribute to world peace by exposing those techniques that lead to armed conflict by creating misapprehension of reality.

Randal Marlin

#13. A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.

Norm MacDonald

#14. Its remarkable the logic we build around a misapprehension.

Sloane Crosley

#15. The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet.

Brian Blessed

#16. This gave me an early taste for humorous authors, of which there were - and are - far too few (though there are lots who labor under the misapprehension that they're funny.)

Connie Willis

#17. When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had.

Jonathan Lethem

#18. All immigration is based on misapprehension.

Mavis Gallant

#19. There is still in many schools complete misapprehension that children with reading difficulties are stupid. It is so easy to teach a child that they're dumb. There needs to be a recognition that you need different ways to teach children who have got reading problems.

Jackie French

#20. The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination.

Andrew McEwan

#21. The whole story would have been speedily formed under her active imagination; and every thing established in the most melancholy order of disastrous love

Jane Austen

#22. I am a tourist of the emotions, visiting only the most well-worn spots. It is romantic, that is, a distortion, to imagine whole lives from the barest observation.

Jean Thompson

#23. Certain empty houses that seemed to stare like the faces of people suffering from terrible mental illness. An empty barn on the outskirts of town, the hayloft door swinging open and closed on rusty hinges, first disclosing darkness, then hiding it, then disclosing it again.

Stephen King

#24. Every mom in a minivan, every person commuting - anytime they are on the road, they should be able to go into driver mode and give a ride to a neighbor. That's how we achieve scale.

Logan Green

#25. Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows.

Anthony Liccione

#26. The subscriptions were working so well, and on top of that, we saw the success of Netflix and Spotify and thought, 'We can create a similar kind of experience for books.'

Trip Adler

#27. Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

Sergei Bongart

#28. Why is your heart racing Tris?

Veronica Roth