Rajneesh Quotes

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

Error is worse than ignorance.

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

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

… fear false knowledge

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

Sometimes we misinterpret, sometimes we misunderstand, sometimes we make mistakes.

There are some people in this world who always turn and twist the spoken word out of proportion.

Not to harp on too much about Ma, but it's a misconception that she is formidable. She calls herself a patsy.

My biggest concern is people misunderstanding me.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

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

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

Every error is truth abused.