Mislead Quotes - Page 8

• Even the concept of the infidel is misleading, because the infidel is normally someone with a different faith, someone who refuses to recognize the truth of the words of the Koran, as revealed by God. He has every right to do so, as long as he does not question my right to believe in my truth.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Believe, Long, Doe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and f - king whoever we wanna f - k.

  Saul Williams

  Dream, Art, Kings

  Source: www.mtv.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional as Presbyterian deacons.

  Muriel Beadle

  College, Students, Forget

  4 Copy quote

• Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

  Samuel Butler

  Lying, Analogies, Dishonesty

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4153, Delphi Classics

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had to leave some traces. In the beginning, I would give complete instructions to the photographer. In the '70s, people would come to photograph your work and you would just end up with this crazy material that had nothing to do with your work; maybe I'd pick up two or three photographs that were the closest to the idea. This is why when you look at the '70s, you see much less documentation and really bad material. The material will become misleading to what the piece was.

  Marina Abramovic

  Crazy, Ideas, Two

  "Marina Abramovic Explains How HBO and Lady Gaga Bring Performance Art to a New Audience". SUNDANCE interview with Bryce J. Renninger, www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2012.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Past, True Or False

  Essays Circles (p. 297)

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's taken my entire life to negotiate how to identify, and I've done a lot of research and a lot of studying, i could have a long conversation, an academic conversation about that. I don't know. I just feel like I didn't mislead anybody; I didn't deceive anybody.

  Rachel Dolezal

  Life, Taken, Long

  "Rachel Dolezal's True Lies" by Allison Samuels, www.vanityfair.com. July 19, 2015.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Part of what we're trying to do is lay out what really happened. For example, I've been trying to get across that the intelligence leadership did not just keep the country in the dark. They actively misled the country on key issues. When you have someone who heads the NSA saying we don't hold data at all on US citizens, that's one of the most misleading statements I believe that's ever been made about surveillance policy. And I think that now we're starting to get that message across.

  Ron Wyden

  Country, Believe, Dark

  "Stopping the 'Ever-Expanding Surveillance State'". Interview with Aj Vicens, www.motherjones.com. July 31, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

  Florence Nightingale

  Average, Want, Habit

  Notes on Nursing Chapter XIII

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I earn my living by teaching film, mostly filmmaking but also teaching courses on current cinema. I'm interested in movies. I hope that's not all I'm interested in. In that sense, it's maybe a little misleading. I don't expect to make another movie about films, but I may continue to write about them.

  Thom Andersen

  Teaching, Writing, Cinema

  Source: www.indiewire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of make-believe. If you pretend that it's true, and use your own name, you are misleading people. Fiction is looser and wilder and sometimes in the end more self-revealing, anyway.

  Nicholson Baker

  Believe, Names, Self

  "Nicholson Baker Navigates The Buffet". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2013.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow; for an army routed, if hotly pursued, becomes panic-stricken, and can then be destroyed by half their number. The other rule is, never fight against heavy odds, if by any possible maneuvering you can hurl your own force on only a part, and that the weakest part, of your enemy and crush it. Such tactics will win every time, and a small army may thus destroy a large one in detail, and repeated victory will make it invincible.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Crush, Army, Fighting

  "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (Volume II)". Book edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, November 1884 - November 1887.

  110 Copy quote

  Show source

• Organized religions by their very natures are misleading.

  Frank Zappa

  Organized, Organized Religion

  "A Conversation With Frank Zappa". "Oui" Interview with Dave Rothman, April 1979.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them both equally misleading. Perhaps it will now try the third, the road of scientific truth, the only road on which the passenger is not deceived. Science does not, ostrich-like, bury its head amidst perils and difficulties. It tries to see everything exactly as everything is.

  Garrett P. Serviss

  Religious, Two, Ostriches

  9 Copy quote

• Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Wall, Tools, Calling

  "Why the Internet is a great tool for totalitarians" by Evgeny Morozov, www.wired.com. December 27, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors I have consistently found that when the layers get peeled back, what lies at the core is either flawed, misleading or simply non-existent.

  Ross McKitrick

  Lying, Collaboration, Layers

  6 Copy quote

• Nothing misleads people like the truth.

  Josh Brolin

  Truth, Reality, People

  12 Copy quote

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

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, People, Music Is

  41 Copy quote

• The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.

  William James

  Men, Essence, Giving

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.13, Xist Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Benjamin Netanyahu is no Winston Churchill. Whatever else he, is he's not a Winston Churchill. He basically violated the great rule, which is it's better to mislead the people and to lose an election than to mislead the people and win an election.

  Mark Shields

  Winning, People, Election

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't want to mislead people.

  Carrie Brownstein

  People, Want

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Sleater-Kinney, Acting, Writing, and More". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. March 25, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Art, Ideas

  7 Copy quote

• Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This vastly complicates the problems of economic organisation. Plainly if it were not for opportunism all behaviour could be rule governed

  Oliver E. Williamson

  Self, Effort, Deceit

  12 Copy quote

• In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined language of science by the misleading language of litigation and advocacy may be one of the more important sources of damage to society incurred in the current debate over global warming.

  Richard Lindzen

  Running, Long, Important

  8 Copy quote

• You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. It could be tabloidy.

  Marcia Clark

  Stories, Crime, Endeavor

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source