Many Americans harbor false ideas about the Sikh faith, falsely associating the traditional turban with terrorism.
Dr. Tobias made fiery anti-apartheid speeches to academic audiences and crowds of demonstrators at the university and said that scientists in particular had to speak out against segregationist policies based on false ideas about racial differences.
Hawkes and those studying "the Shakespearian myth" are reading backwards, trying to strip away all our false ideas about Shakespeare so that in the end we get back to... what?
A survey for the Channel 4 programme Sex Education versus Pornography found three in 10 of 14- to 17-year-olds said they learn about sex from porn while 60% agreed that "pornography might give boys or girls false ideas about sex".
It seems fair to say, in light of such passages in the Guide as the two above, that the allegorical artistry of the Bible, in its intended effect of leading average people to be able to live in accordance with the truth comes with some unpleasant side effects, viz. it might indeed leave some people with patently false ideas about God and reality.
We were raised with false ideas about biology, geology, and history itself.
I've seen too many good relationships fail to have any false ideas about how just because something is good now, it will stay that way.
But perpetually looking ahead, or ― still worse ― looking only at the present moment, only ensures that we will continue to live with damagingly false ideas about our past.
Our discussion showed me the power of words, of how quickly false ideas about our neighbors can take hold and change the fabric of human relationships for the worse.
Breaking down the barrier to our fixed, and ultimately false, ideas about human heritage, culture and race is in many ways equally important to his historic status as the first black president.
