Erroneous Thinking Quotes

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

People may believe correct things for the damndest and weirdest of wrong reasons.

How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons

self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

It is probably impossible to think without words, but if we permit ourselves to think with the wrong words, we shall soon be entertaining erroneous thoughts; for words, which are given us for the expression of thought, have a habit of going beyond their proper bounds and determining the content of thought.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.