Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

— Charles Darwin

All poetry is misrepresentation.

— Jeremy Bentham

To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

— Fabius Maximus

Hillary Clinton spent hundreds of millions of dollars on negative ads on me, many of which are absolutely untrue. They're untrue. And they're misrepresentations.

— Donald Trump

“You know what America is-they're all like spoiled children. Anything goes, isn't that what they say?”

— Soheir Khashoggi

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

— George Washington

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of…

— Noam Chomsky

It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a…

— Karen Russell

To generate any appreciable degree of long-term affluence requires scrupulous honesty and the willingness to honor long-term agreements with employers, suppliers, partners, and especially…

— Robert Sheaffer

Barack Obama thinks he's universally loved and adored because of that approval rating, which is a lie or a misrepresentation. It's mainly people that…

— Rush Limbaugh

There needs to be structures in place to do something about misrepresentation about hip hop. When awards are given out and the media talk…

— Nas

Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly contested from a political point of…

— Lucy R. Lippard

The public should begin to understand that there's nothing that comes out of this campaign, or this Obama White House, that they can believe.…

— John Sununu

Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising is…

— Dorothy L. Sayers