Misbeliefs Quotes & Sayings

My mistress used to say that you couldn't ever really be naked unless you wanted to be. She said, 'Even if you've taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It's quite difficult to be really naked. You have to work hard at it. Just getting into a bath isn't being naked, not really. It's just showing skin. And foxes and bears have skin, too, so I shan't be ashamed if they're not. — Catherynne M Valente

Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

I have no feeling of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days. They don't require that I pretend to know them all, nor do they urge me to become one of the "professional book-handlers" ... who greedily collect books but do not read them ... — Alberto Manguel

With God, being lost is nothing more than an idea that never has and never will be anything more than an idea. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand. — Brian Greene

The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game. — Kelly Corrigan

Logic stays true, wherever you may go,
So logic never tells you where you live. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

At the end of the day, to sit in my garden is to finally awaken — Nature Conservancy

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend — Albert Bandura

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder. — Tertullian

[On her seven-month-old son:] When people see me carrying him in the street they think I'm being attacked by a short, bald man. But it's just me with my little fat child. — Elizabeth Hurley