erroneous beliefs Quotes

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

The convictions of the multitudes … are sincere convictions. They are, as we know, sometimes disastrously erroneous; but they are also disastrously honest.

Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said. Why, little one, you just said something wise!'Saphira teased.

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.

It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

Common sense tells us that the world is flat, that the sun goes around the earth, that heavy bodies always fall faster than light bodies, that boats made of iron will sink.

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet.

How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error.

He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.

The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only to avoid his worst foes, his admirers, a man should avoid system. The more correct a system the worse will it be misunderstood; its professed admirers will take both its errors and their misconceptions of its truths, and hold them forth as its essence.

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

Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs