Common Misconception Quotes

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

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.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

’Tis a gross error, held in schools,, That Fortune always favours fools.

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.

Most people think if you are vegan you eat just green stuff, you just eat salad and lettuce and veggies the whole day... I'm eating beans, legumes, lentils and peas and rice and potatoes and a lot of things that have calories to give me the energy to do what I do.

I think people have a misconception of athletes when they think about what goes through their heads, you know what I'm saying?

The fact that the entire world says something does not mean it is correct

I think people have this stereotypical idea in their head of what a nerd is. People have said to me before, "You're not a nerd!" because I think they think of the classic Revenge Of The Nerds archetype.

People think all wrestlers are millionaires. It's really a blue-collar existence.

All this thing that L.A. doesn't have any love for the theater isn't true.

I think a lot of people see the flu as a common cold, but it's not: it's a serious respiratory illness that could lead to hospitalization and the young are extremely vulnerable.

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.'

I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it's totally not, which is why I'm trying to get away from it because it's just easy and automatic.

What is true and what most folks think is that there is no sound in space. From almost all recollections, I would agree.