"Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven;……" — Robert Burns
"Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven."
More Astray Quotes
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila
- Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in… — John O. Brennan
- It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you. — Willie Aames
- If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. — Dante Alighieri
- He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall… — Laozi
- I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I… — Alistair Cooke
- State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better… — Thomas Jefferson
- I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could… — Henry David Thoreau
- Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach… — Confucius
- Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance… — Andre Weil
- It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close… — Albert Einstein
- Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth. — Jean Rostand