Misrepresentation Quotes

31 quotes by 30 authors

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are… — Henry Ward Beecher
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Don't make misrepresentations to anyone you deal with. If you believe the other person may have misunderstood you, correct any misunderstanding you find exists. Honesty… — Buck Rodgers
The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation. — C. Northcote Parkinson
As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself to be in… — Thomas Huxley
"Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his word-true to his… — Ezra Taft Benson
Abstract: Careful review of a vast array of relevant evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that some unidentified flying objects are intelligently controlled vehicles whose… — Stanton T. Friedman
To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office. — Fabius Maximus
Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes.… — Marvin Harris
With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close the book on… — Edward Kennedy
I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity or of religion… — David Bentley Hart
Because of the attitude of a few mental dinosaurs intent on exploiting our initial success, Brian's huge talent has never been fully appreciated in America… — Dennis Wilson
By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals. — Dalai Lama
As I say at the beginning of my workshops, 'Everything I say here is a lie -- bullshit, in other words -- because anything that… — John C. Lilly
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree… — George Eliot
I am tired of the misrepresentation, calumny and detraction, heaped upon me by wicked men; and desire and claim, only those principles guaranteed to all… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we shut down and… — Lidia Yuknavitch
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure. — Charles Darwin
This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager and professional advisers… — Leonard Cohen
Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth. — George Washington

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