George Soros Quotes

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

The thing that sucks is that there's so much false data because people are in mystery as to what Scientology is, so they just kind of make up stuff.

If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.

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

But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

I actually lost more weight than I am!

I've never been a model; that's a misconception about me, and I don't know where it came from.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

It leads to a false belief in America that we have taken great step forward. It does not contribute in any way to settling matters of international controversy.

A misconception remains a misconception, even when it is shared by the majority of people.

… a pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons..

I think bubbles are things people see with 20/20 hindsight. If you look at any particular period where prices go up and then they go down, you will always find people who predicted that they would go down. Those are the people you pay attention to.

Market timing doesn't work. If all the bubbles and all this mispricing really exist, how come so few people see it before it turns out that way?

The strange thing about people considering me upbeat is that I'm really not.

People will hear one thing and just run with it.

One of the things that I see on Twitter is that people think they know what you think about things you haven't discussed.

I often meet people who say, 'I thought you were dead.'

Because of my pseudonym Gulzar, which is how I am known, some people think I am a Muslim.

There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn’t perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that’s not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.

It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.

We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.

People think that they see, but they don't.