Diana Gabaldon

Back in the day, when I was a university professor, I used to teach a class in Human Anatomy and Physiology. This class was popular with the football players, who all took it under the tragic misapprehension that it would be easy.

American Author

Charles Francis Richter

There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.

American Scientist

Tom Hollander

They haven't said it, but let's be clear: I would never have been on the list for James Bond, so I'm not labouring under that misapprehension.

English Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

British Actor

Prunella Scales

I don't think theatrical marriages are necessarily less stable than others; I think this is a slight misapprehension.

English Actress

The understanding of 'misapprehension' can depend on the situation. Note what's being misunderstood.

Context Matters

'Misapprehension' implies a mistake made innocently, not on purpose.

Not Deliberate

Use 'misapprehension' when addressing and correcting someone's false belief or error.

Correcting Misapprehensions

 In fact, whenever you bring it up in a debate about surveillance, people instantaneously dismiss it as inapplicable, and what they say is, "Oh, well in '1984,' there were monitors in people's homes, they were being watched at every given moment, and that has nothing to do with the surveillance state that we face." That is an actual fundamental misapprehension