Mislead Quotes

190 quotes by 170 authors

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. — David Attenborough
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious,… — Russell Baker
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very… — Douglas Adams
I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll… — Jimmy Carter
This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless… — John Maynard Keynes
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… — Arthur C. Clarke
Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack… — Florence Nightingale
The Senate voted 97-0 for an anti-spam bill to stop those annoying things you get on your computer. The senators made it very clear that… — Jay Leno
Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible. — Stonewall Jackson
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… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be… — Robert Foster Bennett
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… — Samuel Johnson
The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force". — John B. S. Haldane
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. — Anita Brookner
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not… — Edward Steichen
Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This… — Oliver E. Williamson
In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined language of science by the misleading language of litigation and advocacy may be one… — Richard Lindzen
Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing. — Christoph Waltz
I have fun with it and I am honest and open about the way I lead my life and don't mislead anyone. I've had the… — James Blunt
Oh, great reviews are the worst. They mislead you more than the bad ones, because they only fuel your ego. Then you only want another… — Chazz Palminteri

Who Wrote These Mislead Quotes

170 authors contributed a total of 190 Mislead Quotes, led by these top contributors: