Misapplication Quotes

MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.

You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry!

There is no maxim ... which is more liable to be misapplied ... than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

There's a tendency in American thought - maybe elsewhere, but that's the culture I know best - to default to social Darwinism, even though even Darwin noted that's a misapplication of his ideas.

Abuse is no argument against proper use

The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.

How is an error possible in mathematics?

… an economic crime…. A misapplication of Biblical principles.

To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging.

As the growth mindset has become more popular and taken hold, we are beginning to find that there are pitfalls. Many educators misunderstand or misapply the concepts.

We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?

If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of science.

People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.

A lot of people have difficulty wrapping their heads around what VR is good for. And the direction people go first is wrong. The wrong place is always: How can we do something we've done before, but on this?

Scholars are deeply gratified when their ideas catch on. And they are even more gratified when their ideas make a difference - improving motivation, innovation, or productivity, for example. But popularity has a price: people sometimes distort ideas and, therefore, fail to reap their benefits.

Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness.