Browsing Topic Best Mislead Quotes

You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

I will not mislead the American people by claiming just a little bit more time in Afghanistan will make all the difference.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don’t even know you’re making.

Satan is pure spirit. He often appears as something else, to mislead. He appeared to Padre Pio as Jesus, to frighten him. He sometimes appears as a raging animal.

Books can be misleading…

We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea. To say that divinity informs the world and all things is condemned as pantheism. But pantheism is a misleading word. It suggests that a personal god is supposed to inhabit the world, but that is not the idea at all. The idea is trans-theological. It is of an indefinable, inconceivable mystery, thought of as a power, that is the source and end and supporting ground of all life and being.

To say that ‘wealth in America is so unfairly distributed in America,’ as Ronald Dworkin does, is grossly misleading when most wealth in the United States is not distributed: at all. People create it, earn it, save it, and spend it.

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They’re desperate to know that you’re not lying to them or misleading them.

People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term self. And if you’re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.

The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you’re not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I’m not perfect. I’m just like you. They don’t ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.

If we are leading but not closely following Christ, we are misleading.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.

I cannot mislead people into believing that I support organized religion. In Jesus’ name, I cannot be complicit with many of the things organized religion does.

The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that’s misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.

Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him. He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.

Tapes, as we all know, are very powerful evidence. Tapes that are altered are powerfully misleading.

During college, when I was working full time for my father [the decorator Mark Hampton], I rented an apartment and I just couldn’t take time off to paint it. So I went there one evening and stayed up all night painting the place what I thought was a lovely pale yellow. When the sun came up, I realized I’d painted the walls the color of insanity. I had to immediately mix in all my trim color to tone it down. Yellow is an electric color and wholly misleading. It becomes more yellow with the sun’s yellow light on it. The moral is, even if you think your yellow is the one, go paler.

Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).

There is also an age-old excuse: The devil made me do it. Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.

I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I’m not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one’s own. … I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.

The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn’t mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.

You know how misleading an image is. You see an image in the newspaper, if they left the caption off, good luck knowing what’s going on. There is something inherently misleading about images, so they need annotation.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that’s a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

We know that uncertainty creates anxiety and sometimes desperate attempts to find something to believe in. Uncertainty engenders real opportunity as well as misleading choices, great leaders as well as false messiahs, and new ways of understanding the world alongside hollow maxims and deceptive promises. Understandably, we seek guides and guideposts to ease the anxiety of the journey. But we also need to depend on our own insights and imagination to cultivate, from our own experience, a way to move forward.

I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

Whatever Scotland was, it was not a matriarchy; whereas the United States was a profoundly matriarchal society – and much more feminine than would be suggested by all that male bravado. That was a front, and a misleading one at that; underneath the male swagger lay a passive acceptance of female dominance – a fact not always appreciated by outsiders.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

However, don’t let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas – that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there’s a problem and it’s of modest dimensions.

The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by… misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys