Misleading Quotes

129 quotes by 116 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
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
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
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
The next time The Oregonian runs a misleading headline saying that it's because of bike lanes that people aren't having their streets paved, I want… — Steve Novick
Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading… — Terry Pratchett
Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form. — Immanuel Kant
I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors I have consistently… — Ross McKitrick
Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from… — Osama bin Laden

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