Top 100 Mislead Quotes
#2. Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
#3. I didn't mislead people. I know I didn't lie and I have got to establish that.
Peter Mandelson
#4. A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.
Anurag Shourie
#5. Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
Norman Tebbit
#6. Mars has become a kind of mythic arena onto which we have projected our earthly hopes and fears. But our psychological predispositions pro or con must not mislead us. All that matters is the evidence, and the evidence is not yet in.
Carl Sagan
#7. It was one of those ones they call screwball comedies, where people mislead and ill-treat each other in the most shocking and baffling way possible, then forgive and forget about it because they happen to like the look of each other. Only they call it falling in love.
Helen Oyeyemi
#8. Truths designed to mislead are just as bad as lies.
Courtney Milan
#9. 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
#10. It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.
Daniel Kahneman
#11. Barsavi knew how to create expectations, Locke, and how to use those expectations to mislead those who would harm him.
Scott Lynch
#12. When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.
Martin Gore
#14. Marketers and executives are very different from the average consumer, so your instincts may mislead you.
Chad White
#15. The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.
Mitch Daniels
#16. We can easily see what actions and speech will lead us and others into hatred, confusion, difficulty, and suffering. And we can see what words and actions will not. ... Is our intention to hoodwink, mislead, inflate, or deceive others ... ?
Steve Hagen
#17. It rarely happens otherwise than that a thorough-faced coquette dies in celibacy, as a punishment for her attempts to mislead others, by encouraging looks, words, or actions, given for no other purpose than to draw men on to make overtures that they may be rejected.
George Washington
#18. Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
Charles Caleb Colton
#19. With love, you don't mislead or play around, so if you're not perfectly clear, just be honest about it.
Khloe Kardashian
#20. A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.
Napoleon Hill
#21. Excuse me? You're the one who was out to mislead me with your alluring bimbo slinkiness! What if I had believed your act last night? What if I had fallen deeply and madly in love with you? You would have had the blood of my love-sickness on your hands, Leila Folger.
Lani Wendt Young
#22. In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.
Storm Jameson
#23. To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.
Cardinal Richelieu
#24. A man of purpose focuses on his destination, not his situation. Don't let your situation mislead you!
T. B. Joshua
#25. Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.
Don Roff
#26. To lie is to intentionally mislead others when they expect honest communication.
Sam Harris
#27. The most disturbing part of working on all these issues is the amount of money spent by corporations to confuse, mislead and misinform the public. This is one of the reasons why we are always taking two steps forward and three steps back.
Laurie David
#28. The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.
Thomas S. Monson
#29. We do not need to be heroes to save the world; all we need is humility, a critical view of the commercial and political interests of those who would mislead us into wrongdoing, and a sense of wonder.
John Burnside
#30. Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.
Dean Koontz
#31. Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.
Stephen Hawking
#32. False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken by the sun, will be pleased to see a fainter orb arise on the horizon, that may rescue him from total darkness, though with weak and borrowed lustre.
Samuel Johnson
#33. However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.
Bob Filner
#34. The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.
J.I. Packer
#35. The fact that the fool is often stubborn must not mislead us into thinking that he is independent.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#36. Inevera raised an eyebrow. "You suggest I mislead the council of Damaji about what I see in the sacred dice?" Abban smiled. "Damajah, please. Do not insult us both.
Peter V. Brett
#37. The person you can most easily mislead is yourself.
Anonymous
#38. It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.
Warren Buffett
#39. Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
Paracelsus
#40. Reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers ... annotations, arrows ... an oudine of its design ... very seriously mislead.
William H Gass
#41. It is sinful for students to badmouth their teachers and sinful for teachers to mislead their students.
Igor Babailov
#42. When people in positions of trust mislead us - either recklessly, negligently or intentionally - that impacts the republic.
Trey Gowdy
#43. You are allowed to lie a little, but you must never mislead.
Paul Halmos
#44. How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting.
John Hagee
#45. Baby, I held back today to let you get over all you've been through. But don't let that mislead you. You wouldn't be here if I planned on protecting you from me.
Lisa Renee Jones
#47. While anyone whom God lets go astray will have no guide. No one can mislead anyone whom God guides.
Quran- Az-Zumar(36-37)
Anonymous
#48. Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.
John Ruskin
#49. In conversation we are sometimes confused by the tone of our own voice, and mislead to make assertions that do not at all correspond to our opinions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#50. Your eyes may mislead you sometimes. So don't be serious in observing, listen to your heart at times when you are confused.
Giridhar Alwar
#51. Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they used the flawed intelligence to mislead.
David Corn
#52. Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.
Samuel Johnson
#53. I cannot mislead people into believing that I support organized religion. In Jesus' name, I cannot be complicit with many of the things organized religion does.
Anne Rice
#54. It was the most important moment in human history, the telling of the first lie. That's what separates us from the other animals. It has nothing to do with humans thinking on a higher plane or having easily available credit. We lie to each other. We deliberately mislead.
Michael Robotham
#55. He lies not because it's in his interest, he lies because it's in his nature." It was in Jobs's nature to mislead or be secretive when he felt it was warranted.
Walter Isaacson
#56. If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead you, and the less phony he is; the more powerful he is, the more enlightened he is, the more misery and mischief he will create for you.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#57. The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#58. Our guts can really mislead us. Sometimes, what we think of as our gut is something else, like an outside influence. If you're going to buy an apartment and it smells of freshly baked bread, you're more likely to want to buy it.
Noreena Hertz
#59. We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.
Matthew Stewart
#60. You ask me if I love you and I choke on my reply. I'd rather hurt you honestly than mislead you with a lie.
Dan Hill
#61. She answered her husband with friendly evasiveness - not with any fixed design to mislead him, only because all sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to Fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference.
Kate Chopin
#62. The single right decision to take is to forget the past so that it does not mislead you at a later stage
Sunday Adelaja
#63. If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.
Peter Singer
#64. Icarus."
"Hmm?"
"I don't have a hidden agenda. Nor do I intend to use you or mislead you with my charm."
Despite herself, she smiled, glancing at him. His face was studiously neutral.
"The day you act charming, I'll know something is wrong.
Dru Pagliassotti
#65. A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.
Ernest Bevin
#66. The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.
H. H. Asquith
#67. The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.
Eric Schlosser
#68. But there is a more virulent strain at the root of Western Lysenkoism today. Scientists, like Holdren and Michael Mann, can be leftist ideologues as well, posing to manipulate and mislead for the good of the cause. Bottom line: green is the new red. That is why Obama at root is so committed to it.
Peter Ferrara
#69. When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.
James E. Faust
#71. I'm not much of a liar. A hoarder, a hider: most definitely, yes, and sometimes I'm dishonest by default because I find it difficult to share that innermost part of myself with others. But never a conscious liar. I don't think I have it within me to deliberately mislead anyone.
Siobhan Davis
#72. Proverbs 16:28-30 28 A troublemaker plants seeds of strife; gossip separates the best of friends. 29 Violent people mislead their companions, leading them down a harmful path. 30 With narrowed eyes, people plot evil; with a smirk, they plan their mischief.
Anonymous
#73. There are many ways in which journalists can mislead a reader with science: they can cherry-pick the evidence, or massage the statistics; they can pit hysteria and emotion against cold, bland statements from authority figures.
Ben Goldacre
#74. Do not mislead Perez Anna or malign the people who have sheltered you for over twenty years. We are not - what is the word for eaters of one another?"
"Capitalists," said Anna.
Eleanor Arnason
#75. Christian hope is not a ghost and it does not deceive. It is a theological virtue and therefore, ultimately, a gift from God that cannot be reduced to optimism, which is only human. God does not mislead hope; God cannot deny himself. God is all promise.
Pope Francis
#76. There is also an age-old excuse: 'The devil made me do it.' Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.
Boyd K. Packer
#77. The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#78. Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course.
Gustav Stresemann
#79. Oh, great reviews are the worst. They mislead you more than the bad ones, because they only fuel your ego. Then you only want another one, like potato chips or something, and the best thing you get is fat and bloated. I'd rather just refuse, thanks.
Chazz Palminteri
#80. Your authentic, true self doesn't lie to you, mislead you, or take you away from your power source.
Christiane Northrup
#82. Benjamin Netanyahu is no Winston Churchill. Whatever else he, is he's not a Winston Churchill. He basically violated the great rule, which is it's better to mislead the people and to lose an election than to mislead the people and win an election.
Mark Shields
#83. Lying is a deliberate choice to mislead a target without giving any notification of the intent to do so. There are two major forms of lying: concealment, leaving out true information; and falsification, or presenting false information as if it were true.
Paul Ekman
#84. I feel like people mislead themselves when they tell themselves they're into me because of the lyrics. From my vantage point, people aren't into me because of the content, because of the lyrics. Because there's a million of rappers who have great content.
Talib Kweli
#85. I think that could be perhaps a little misleading and even our statistics can mislead people at the times though they are not misleading in themselves. It is just that people get mislead
Norman Tebbit
#87. I've come to the realization that if I don't feel like sharing, then I'm just not going to share. But I'm not going to go out of my way to mislead people or keep them at a distance, because that doesn't really get me anywhere either.
Megan Fox
#88. No human should mislead another by promising them something they know to be untrue.
Santosh Kalwar
#89. Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us.
John Dickinson
#90. We should not mislead the Iraqis into thinking they have unlimited time to reach a settlement. The longer they think that, the less likely they will be to act.
Sherrod Brown
#91. mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy
Sun Tzu
#92. A person who believes every word that is spoken or read has an inbuilt fool for an interpreter and leads a life mislead.
Truth Devour
#93. Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#94. Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.
Joe Wilson
#95. Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.
Linus Pauling
#96. I have fun with it and I am honest and open about the way I lead my life and don't mislead anyone. I've had the time of my life and thank God for that, it would be such a waste otherwise.
James Blunt
#97. It's taken my entire life to negotiate how to identify, and I've done a lot of research and a lot of studying, i could have a long conversation, an academic conversation about that. I don't know. I just feel like I didn't mislead anybody; I didn't deceive anybody.
Rachel Dolezal
#98. Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.
Bill Gates
#99. If we are leading but not closely following Christ, we are misleading.
Beth Moore
#100. At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the very thing I used my imagination to avoid.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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