Misbeliefs Quotes (12 quotes)

“One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stupid just because they are a doctor or a lawyer.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, court, court-of-law, doctor, doctors, education, fool, foolish, funny, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, idiot, joke, jokes, judge, law, lawyer, lawyers, medicine, misbelief, misbeliefs, satire, stupid

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“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: age, aged, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, belief, beliefs, birth, burial, bury, child, children, cycle, dead, death, die, elder, elders, fallacies, fallacy, funeral, funerals, funny, gone-too-soon, hereafter, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, immortal, immortality, joke, jokes, kid, kids, life, life-after-death, life-and-death, misbelief, misbeliefs, misconception, misconceptions, mortal, mortality, newborn, newborns, offspring, old, old-age, old-age-home, old-age-homes, philosopher, philosophers-cry, philosophic, philosophy, prepare, prepared, quotations, quotes, rest-in-peace, rip, satire, stoic, stoicism, stoics, surprise, surprising, the-elders, the-hereafter, tomb, tombstone, tombstones, unprepared, weep

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“Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“One of the leading causes of obesity is the misbelief that, when it comes to juice, ‘100%’ means ‘sugar-free.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: 100, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, beefy, beer-bellied, belief, beliefs, big-boned, blubbery, chubby, chunky, corpulent, fat, fatty, flabby, fleshy, funny, grease, greasy, gross, health, healthy, healthy-food, healthy-foods, heavy, heavyset, humor, humour, hundred-percent-juice, joke, jokes, juice, large, lean, mass, meaty, misbelief, misbeliefs, misconception, misconceptions, obese, obesity, of-ample-proportions, oily, overweight, paunchy, plump, plus-sized, porky, portly, potbellied, roly-poly, satire, skinny, stout, sugar, sweet, sweet-tooth, thin, tubby, weight, well-upholstered

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“The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: aphorism, aphorisms, belief, beliefs, clever, consumerism, currency, danger, dangerous, drink, exchange, humor, humour, ignorance, ignorant, info, information, informed, intellect, intellectual, intellectuals, intelligence, made-me-think, make-you-think, materialism, materialistic, medium-of-exchange, misbelief, misbeliefs, misinform, misinformed, money, monied, poor, poverty, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, rich, riches, satire, satirical, smart, spirituality, thought-provoking, unshakable, unshakable-belief, unshakable-beliefs, wealth, wealthy, well-informed, wisdom, wise

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“It is unfortunate that it is possible to 'know' something that is not true.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: arrogance, beliefs, culture, facts, humility, ignorance, knowledge, misbeliefs, misinformation, religion

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“Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words ‘impossible’ and ‘improbable’ are synonyms.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: aphorism, aphorisms, civilization, humanity, humanity-quotes, impossible, improbability, inspiration, inspirational-quotes, misbelief, misbeliefs, motivation, myth, myths, progress, synonyms, words

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“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

tags: abandon, abandoned, assured, beliefs, confidence, faith, god, idea, ideas, longing, lost, misbeliefs, misguided, misled, search, searching, wander, wandering

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“Our misbeliefs often make it impossible for us to realize, and/or to accept, some facts.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: beliefs, confirmation-bias, fact, facts, misbelief, misbeliefs, partiality, perception, prejudice, the-truth

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“Sometimes the truth is way more comforting than the misbelief or the lie from which we derive comfort.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: beliefs, lie, lies, misbelief, misbeliefs, superstition, truth, truths, untruth, untruths

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“I don’t believe that the common man is as bad as what we commonly see on the news. But we won’t know that until we spend some face-to-face time with the common man who lives just on the other side of our common fence.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: common-man, community, distortions, friendship, man, media, misbeliefs, neighbors, news

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