A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held. — Georg Cantor
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. — Baruch Spinoza
Short Contrary To Popular Belief Quotes
Don't believe everything you hear today — Joe Hill
Paradoxical, things that seem obvious, broad consensus — Howard Marks
Common sense is not so common. — Voltaire
Don't believe everything you hear - even in your own mind. — Daniel Amen
Nah, that's not true. — Rick Ross
Remember that what's right isn't always popular, and what's popular isn't always right. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Social consensus is not the same thing as truth. — Balaji Srinivasan
Don't be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone.
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. — Edgard Varese
Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising. — Roy H. Williams
Contrary to popular belief, we are not doomed. This is statistically the best time to be alive, ever. — Peter Diamandis
Religion is belief in someone else's experience. Spirituality is having your own experience.
Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being. — Amit Goswami
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns. — Hermione Gingold
Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur. — Julie Andrews
Contrary to popular belief, I'm not promiscuous. There does seem to be a mistaken belief out there that I am sexually available somehow which is not to say that I'm not open-minded about sex. — Scarlett Johansson
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem. — Nathaniel Branden
Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days. — Jack Kerouac
I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. — Emma Thompson
Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans. — Rachel Held Evans
Contrary to popular belief, resilience isn’t something that only a select few are born with. — Paul Jarvis
Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear. — James Neil Hollingworth
Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich. — Mike Royko
Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve. — Ernie J Zelinski
I'm not particularly fond of kissing strange men-contrary to popular belief. — Madonna Ciccone
Contrary to popular belief, we do not face a choice between economy and ecology, It is often said that protecting the environment would constrain or even undermine economic growth. In fact, the opposite is true: unless we protect resources and the earth's natural capital, we shall not be able to sustain economic growth. — Kofi Annan
The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone. — Ashly Lorenzana
Contrary to popular belief, there is no such thing as an educated person. You are either learning or you are not. In today's world, it is vitally important that you see the truth in Eric Hoffer's statement. The win or loss, which is waiting in the wings for every person, is enormous. You get to choose which you will experience. — Bob Proctor
Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin. — George Orwell
Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity. — Robert Genn
Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs. — Larry Gelbart
Contrary to popular belief, the Loch Ness Monster is not a dinosaur -- it's a huge mutant duck, a top researcher claims.... Most mainstream Nessie researchers consider Gluber's duck theory to be horse feathers and are trying to blast it out of the water. — Murphy J. Foster, Jr.
You have a soft spot. Contrary to popular belief, it is not where you are weak, it is the gateway to indestructible power. — Susan Piver
Contrary to popular belief, I have always had a wonderful repertoire with my players. — Danny Ozark
Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time. — David Benioff
Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about. — Bill Gates
It has come to be a dreadfully common belief in the Christian Church that the only man who has a “call” is the man who devotes all his time to what is called “the ministry,” whereas all Christian service is ministry, and every Christian has a call to some kind of ministry or another. — Charles Spurgeon
Contrary to popular belief, there are lots of actions on the part of Jefferson and Hemings that "speak" about the basic nature of their relationship. — Annette Gordon-Reed
Contrary to popular belief, a good number of transvestites-both male and female-are also heterosexual. Just because they want to get dressed up like the opposite sex does not necessarily mean they want to go to bed with the same sex. Some have successful heterosexual marriages & enjoy the most delightful shopping experiences. — Peter McWilliams
Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs. — Edward Varese
Here's something that's contrary to popular belief: I actually don't like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don't. I do not like to think at all. — Kanye West
I'm very interested in film making. It's telling a story, fiction or non-fiction. I have been filmed quite a lot. Contrary to popular belief, filming isn't glamorous. It can be wearingly repetitious, as the same shot is taken over and over again. — Stephen Hawking
Contrary to popular belief, I don't go out very much. When I do go out, a lot of times it'll be to something like a heavyweight fight, and I'll be photographed, so that people have this conception that I go out a lot. — Rob Lowe
Contrary to popular belief, there are actually quite a few guys in the action sports community that have faith and are Christians. — Nick Goepper
Hollywood is not stupid, contrary to popular belief; it's really a lot of intelligent people trying to figure things out. — Peter Berg
Newton's theory is not 'not right', it just does not cover all distances. Contrary to popular belief, theories in science are not proven wrong, they are just replaced by more complete and convenient theories. To sound provocative, even the geocentric theory was never "proven" wrong, it is just not as convenient as the heliocentric theory, since it requires endless epicycles. — Nathan Seiberg
Violence, contrary to popular belief, is not part of the anarchist philosophy. It has repeatedly been pointed out by anarchist thinkers that the revolution can neither be won, nor the anarchist society established and maintained, by armed violence. — Vernon Richards
Contrary to popular belief, the moment we land in Heaven we don't immediately know everything! If we did, we'd be God Himself - all-knowing. — David Berg
Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons. — Criss Jami
Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear. — Peter McWilliams
Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But what history really shows is that today`s empire is tomorrow`s ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit. — Mumia Abu-Jamal
The new racism: Racism without 'racists.' Today, racial segregation and division often result from habits, policies, and institutions that are not explicitly designed to discriminate. Contrary to popular belief, discrimination or segregation do not require animus. They thrive even in the absence of prejudice or ill will. It's common to have racism without racists. — Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would have made the perfect knight in a different century, or a very good pagan prince in a time of heroes. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river, with the ability to do anything and finding nothing he wants to do. — S. E. Hinton
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