Erroneously Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
— Ambrose Bierce
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We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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At no point did the [Burns] committee conclude, or even attempt to conclude, an assessment of cruelty. Yet many bodies have erroneously quoted the Burns…
— Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior
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What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named disorder…
— Marquis de Sade
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Many people erroneously think they have only one chance to succeed, and if they miss that chance, they are doomed to failure. In fact, most…
— Bill Walsh
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Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination or intuition.…
— Edward Kasner
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Soups challenge us, because an enticing flavorful stew can be as different from the thin watery beverage sometimes erroneously called soup as a genuine green…
— Louis Pullig De Gouy
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This is so like the way the Americans deliberately erroneously refer to Afghans and Iraqis as terrorists when they fight back killing American soldiers to…
— Bob Barker
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The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and…
— Peter Joseph
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The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only…
— Bertrand Russell
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Many bodybuilders sell themselves short. Erroneously attributing their lack of satisfactory progress to a poverty of the requisite genetic traits, instead of to their irrational…
— Mike Mentzer
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The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth
— T.D. Jakes
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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such…
— Bodhidharma
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Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naive ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of…
— Richard P. Feynman
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The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your…
— Richard P. Feynman
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The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago,…
— Marianne Williamson
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Some people erroneously believe that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members are not Christian. We have difficulty understanding why anyone…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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And when human rights are being thrown aside, ignored, well, there's no game in progress, that's all -- in spite of the childhood bible, the…
— L Ron Hubbard
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The honesty of a persons audacity of simplicity is in his capacity and capability to live with a few simple things and leave many things…
— Anuj Somany
Who Wrote These Erroneously Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Erroneously Quotes as follows: