#distorted

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine. ↗

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#context #deal #destroyed #distorted #either

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#constant #distorted #immediate #input #map

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#both #commands #crude #distorted #life

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#break #constructs #coverage #distorted #extensive

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#always #become #different #distorted #express

Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#direct #distorted #education #ends #evil

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#displeasure #distorted #examination #havens #inhibited

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so. ↗

— James L. Brooks

#get #movie #things #very #weirdly

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#believe #built #came #cities #denied