Mislead Quotes - Page 2

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

  Douglas Adams

  Statistics, Assumption, Knows

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.95, Ballantine Books

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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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• Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.

  Stephen Hawking

  Believe, Rocks, Order

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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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• 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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• 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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• My definition of fake news is a content-like object that is a story, an article, a video, a tweet that has been fabricated, completely invented out of thin air, intentionally for the purpose of misleading.

  Vivian Schiller

  Air, Fake, Definitions

  Source: www.npr.org

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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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• A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

  Ernest Bevin

  Historical, Three, Propaganda

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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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• If there was an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating, this administration would take the gold. World records for violations of national and international laws. They want another four-year term to continue to alienate our allies, spend our children's inheritance and hollow out our economy. We can't afford another Republican administration.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Children, Years, Law

  Dennis Kucinich's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, www.politico.com. August 26, 2008.

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• 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.

  Barbra Streisand

  Stars, Stupid, Ridiculous

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• Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

  Paracelsus

  Book, Physicians, Patient

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.50, Princeton University Press

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• 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.

  Alan Briskin

  Real, Moving Forward, Believe

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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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• 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.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Lying, People, Hunger

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• You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can end up focusing on misleading factors. Stuff that really has more to do with personality-the fact that some people are simply more expressive or emotional or needy in a relationship. But beyond such smokescreens, the answer is there. Love is seldom-almost never-an even proposition.

  Emily Giffin

  Love Is, Emotional, People

  Emily Giffin (2006). “Baby Proof”

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

  Albert Sabin

  Animal, Long, Prevention

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• Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Understanding, Kind, Judgment

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• When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions.

  Jimmy Carter

  Change, War, President

  "Mr President for good" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2004.

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• The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration

  Hjalmar Branting

  War, Mean, Reflection

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• The entire Islamic world condemned Iran. Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements, and the lack of any effort to resolve the Palestinian issue, there is massive Islamic condemnation of the United States.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Islamic, Adventure

  "Mr President for good" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2004.

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