Mislead Quotes - Page 11

• A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Aggravation, Understanding

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• But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

  Ernest Holmes

  Christian, Real, Symbols

  Ernest Holmes (2010). “Living Without Fear”, p.26, Penguin

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• Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Book, Reviews, Flawed

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• A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. -Sara

  Lisa Kleypas

  Thinking, Long, People

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• Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

  William James

  Life, Real, Culture

  'McClure's Magazine' February 1908, p. 422

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• However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. One of the lessons of the financial crisis that led to the Great Recession is that there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Powerful, Organization, Optimism

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• But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite to the great and mean, to the celebrated and obscure; the art of moderating the desires, of repressing the appetites; and of conciliating or retaining the favour of mankind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Mean, Mislead Us

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1792). “The rambler”, p.233

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• At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its infancy; examine everything relative to the development of talents; be original; form a style for yourselves based on your private studies; if you must copy, imitate nature, it is a noble model and never misleads those who follow it.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Art, Ballet, Style

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• Islam will be destroyed by the mistakes of scholars, the arguments of the hypocrites who misinterpret the Qur’an to support their views and misleading rulers.

  Umar

  Mistake, Hypocrite, Views

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• Hate misleads, fear distorts and love blinds.

  Tim Lebbon

  Hate, And Love, Love And Hate

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• I've come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate's like a swordfish invisible in the water, knifing suddenly into sight with blood on its blade- clear water misleads you.

  Pablo Neruda

  Hate, Sight, Blood

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.492, Macmillan

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• False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken by the sun, will be pleased to see a fainter orb arise on the horizon, that may rescue him from total darkness, though with weak and borrowed lustre.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Darkness, Horizon

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.148

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• 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.

  Thomas Sowell

  America, People, United States

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• I have encountered a few "creationists" and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad or only pretending to be mad. If I was a religious person, I would consider creationism nothing less than blasphemy. Do its adherents imagine that God is a cosmic hoaxer who has created the whole vast fossil record for the sole purpose of misleading humankind?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Religious, Nice, Intelligent

  "Presidents, Experts, and Asteroids". Essay by Arthur C. Clarke for journal "Science" (pp. 1532-1533), June 5, 1998.

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• Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.

  Neil Postman

  Technology, Ideas, Age

  "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

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• Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Taken, Self, Temptation

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• We have to do away with a false and misleading dualism, one which abstracts man on the one hand and technology on the other, as if the two were quite separate kinds of realities.... Man is by nature a technological animal; to be human is to be technological.... When we speak of technology, this is another way of speaking about man himself in one of his manifestations.

  Daniel Callahan

  Animal, Technology, Reality

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• When you're young, you can be mislead by older people, who know how to manipulate you.

  Garrett Clayton

  People, Young, Manipulate

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• 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.

  Ann Richards

  Smart, Self, Perfect

  "Ann Richards Discusses Texas, Politics and Humor". "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. January 23, 2001.

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• There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw.

  Stephen Cambone

  Data, Perspective, Use

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• 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.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Thinking, People, Creative

  "A Separation's Asghar Farhadi: 'We need the audience to think" by Saeed Kamali Dehghan, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• You ask me if I love you and I choke on my reply. I'd rather hurt you honestly than mislead you with a lie.

  Dan Hill

  Hurt, Lying, Love You

  Song: Sometimes When We Touch

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• While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Analogies, Assumption

  "The Great Game Then and Now". Address to the Conference on Oil and Gas in the Caspian Sea Region: Geopolitical and Regional Security, March 12, 1998.

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• The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.

  Grace Napolitano

  Fall, Sky, Doubt

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• People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.

  Ken Salazar

  Running, Gasoline Prices, Oil

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