False Attribution Quotes & Sayings

But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a Watteau drawing or an inaccurate transcription of a fourteenth-century epigraph is a sin against the spirit and in the afternoon or evening transmits to the agents of Soviet intelligence classified, perhaps vital information given to him in sworn trust by his countrymen and intimate colleagues. What are the sources of such scission? How does the spirit mask itself? — George Steiner

The law itself was originally created in order to protect property. However, the law has been falsely attributed to being the reason property exists in the first place. At least, this is what the state would have us believe. The law does not create property rights because these already existed before the law was created. It is this false attribution that allows the state apparatus to conduct its mission of expropriation. — Daniel Alexander Brackins

Two angels just squeezed his lean cheeks. I'm going to win. — Katy Evans

Romantic love came under attack, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists, who said that being in love was a chemical reaction in the brain. Marriage is no longer seen as a lifetime commitment. — Jane Ridley

Acting is all about big hair and funny props ... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it. — Harold Ramis

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. — Stanley Baldwin

Every therapy must in some way, no matter how restricted, also be logotherapy. — Viktor E. Frankl

False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse. — Winston Smith

If people disagree with me and want to articulate it, that's not only their right but almost their obligation. — David Cross

You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle. — Umberto Eco