Astray Quotes

171 quotes by 153 authors

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila
Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to… — John O. Brennan
It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you. — Willie Aames
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. — Dante Alighieri
He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is… — Laozi
I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to… — Alistair Cooke
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he… — Thomas Jefferson
I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife,… — Henry David Thoreau
Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you… — Confucius
Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does… — Andre Weil
It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence… — Albert Einstein
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth. — Jean Rostand
[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what human… — Irving Langmuir
Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous, less constant, less… — Ralph Bunche
It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt… — Alexander Hamilton
The voices inside you can lead your soul astray Believe in what you dream Don't turn away don't you turn away. Reach for the light… — Steve Winwood
I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story.… — Flannery O'Connor
The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. — Paul Krugman
The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the pattern of other… — Ludwig von Mises
All rights are individual. We do not get our rights because we belong to a group. Whether it's homosexuals, women, minorities, it leads us astray.… — Ron Paul

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