Misled Quotes
88 quotes by 82 authors
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There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
— Michael Moore
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Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer,…
— John Wanamaker
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No man ever followed his genius til it misled him.
— Henry David Thoreau
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She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely,…
— Jane Austen
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He said to tell you to remember your heart in all things, that it is where your honor and your destiny will be found. Does…
— Libba Bray
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People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did…
— Lee Child
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Homeopathy pills are, after all, empty little sugar pills which seem to work, and so they embody [..] how we can be misled into thinking…
— Ben Goldacre
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But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and…
— Carl Sagan
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The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.
— Robert M. Pirsig
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If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination…
— Larry Crabb
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It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes…
— Melina Marchetta
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You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew,…
— Robert Fulghum
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Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.
— Richard Whately
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Before knowing the truth, if you depend on your intelligence, you can be misled completely. Intelligence that is without the spiritual insight is your own…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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The myriad valleys could have arisen anywhere on the landscape. The current positions are quite accidental. If we could repeat the experiment, we might obtain…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The trick in foraging for a tooth lost in coffee grounds is not to be misled by the clumps. The only way to be sure…
— Roger Rosenblatt
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Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest
— Samuel Johnson
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Do not be misled by small or cheap talk, hold your head high always and be you because if you cannot be who you are,…
— Agnes Ainembabazi
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The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year…
— Senator John Kerry
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