Books can be misleading

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

— Anita Brookner

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.

— Francis Spufford

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

— Michael Mandelbaum

Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature

— Larry Wall

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

— Alfred Marshall

It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.

— Halldór Laxness

Kundalini is almost a misleading word, unless you define it as broadly as I do.

— Frederick Lenz

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…

— Grace Napolitano

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

— Beth Moore

It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.

— Marshall McLuhan

The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or…

— Anatol Rapoport

No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

— James D. Watson

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

— Brian Eno

One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard…

— Matthew Lesko