Mislead Quotes

• There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

  Thomas Sowell

  Young, Dishonorable

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.89, Hoover Press

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• An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

  Russell Baker

  Education, Learned Person, Information

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• Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Ignorance, Eye, Mislead Us

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• Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.

  Walter Lippmann

  Strong, Skills, People

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

  Herbert Spencer

  Ideas, Misuse, Misused Words

  'Principles of Ethics' bk. 1 (1879) pt. 2, ch. 8, 152

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• There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

  Michael Moore

  People, Sides, Gullible

  Michael Moore (2004). “Dude, Where's My Country?”, ePenguin

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• Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.

  Immanuel Kant

  Argument, Form, Ifs

  Immanuel Kant (1965). “Critique of pure reason”

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• I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

  Leo Burnett

  Business, Believe, People

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• 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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Science, Power, Errors

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 1, § 17, 2007.

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• Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Successful, Mislead Us, Bait

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• In the long run we are all dead.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Funny, Death, Running

  A Tract on Monetary Reform ch. 3 (1923)

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• There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Funny, Success, Giving

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• Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Lying, Mean, Reality

  Brooks Jackson, Kathleen Hall Jamieson (2007). “unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation”, p.7, Random House

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• Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they used the flawed intelligence to mislead.

  David Corn

  Used, Misled, Flawed

  "George W. Bush’s CIA Briefer: Bush and Cheney Falsely Presented WMD Intelligence to Public" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. May 19, 2015.

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• I was starting to realize the extent of the problem here: everyone is always lying to each other, and even when they're trying to tell the truth, it can still be misleading or wrong. In fact, it almost always is wrong from at least one angle. I mean, the truth is really just a better class of lie.

  Frank Portman

  Lying, Mean, Class

  Frank Portman (2008). “King Dork”, p.238, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Running, Long, Affair

  A Tract on Monetary Reform ch. 3 (1923)

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

  Beth Moore

  Following Christ, Ifs, Christ

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• One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Technique, Use, Language

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• We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private.

  Warren Buffett

  Believe, Benefits, Ceo

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• Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Vocabulary, Mind, Mastery

  Spectator 19 Nov. 1937 "The Psychology of Advertising"

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• 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.

  Bob Filner

  California, Statistics, Might

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• Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

  Norman Tebbit

  Parliament, Direct, Untruth

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• To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Mean, Deception, Enemy

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources". Book by James Wood, 1899.

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• Yes, I thought I was joining Manchester United, I was misled by all involved. I wasnt aware of another Manchester team

  Robinho

  Funny, Sports, Football

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• If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice, however irresponsible or misleading it may be, to gain traction.

  John Yarmuth

  Opportunity, Voice, People

  "Sarah Palin’s Lame Media Strategy" by Rep. John Yarmuth, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2010.

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