Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to think that he was blind or uncivil. A juster philosophy might teach me rather to think that my eyes deceived me, and that the offer was not really what I conceived it to be.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

You can Photoshop something, put it out, and everyone believes it.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

Every innovation is misguidance, even if the people see it as something good.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

I often tend to think that things are not what they seem.

Anyone who thinks my life is cupcakes is all wrong.