Misleading Quotes

129 quotes by 112 authors

The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance… — William James
Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them… — Garrett P. Serviss
However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth… — Daniel Kahneman
Now, if there were an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating then this administration would take the gold, world-records for violations of national and international… — Dennis Kucinich
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core. — William James
We have to do away with a false and misleading dualism, one which abstracts man on the one hand and technology on the other, as… — Unknown Author
The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making. — Douglas Adams
To say that 'wealth in America is so unfairly distributed in America,' as Ronald Dworkin does, is grossly misleading when most wealth in the United… — Thomas Sowell
Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity?Â In the faithÂ of the New Testament it is central.Â The love of God, the taking… — J I Packer
I use the word 'fat'. I use that word because that's what people are: they're fat. They're not bulky; they're not large, chunky, hefty or… — George Carlin
Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of her… — Germaine Greer
The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the… — Richard van der Riet Woolley
Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading. — Robyn Hitchcock
The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything. — Marshall Fritz
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 to… — Matthew Lesko
Islam will be destroyed by the mistakes of scholars, the arguments of the hypocrites who misinterpret the Qurâ€™an to support their views and misleading rulers. — Unknown Author
That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle' because… — Peter Higgs
I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading… — Augusten Burroughs
The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys — Albert Sabin

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