Quotes About Misguided People

#1. Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?

Haile Selassie

#2. Anyone who's onstage is going to attract a certain number of misguided people. But I was never very interested in groupies. Instead of thinking about the sex, I'd always think about the clap and the crabs those people have.

George Carlin

#3. I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

Socrates

#4. Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.'

Malala Yousafzai

#5. (After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values. All they desire is continuation of what they had in life no matter how misguided or degraded ... Will those people ever progress, even with our help?

Richard Matheson

#6. It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.

Grover Cleveland

#7. To God's instructions and teachings! People who contradict his word are completely in the dark.

Anonymous

#8. Kami linked her arms behind his back, felt the breadth of his shoulders and the reality of skin and muscle and bone, and thought again, Don't let me go.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#9. Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons.

Tamara Hughes

#10. I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.

Lloyd Alexander

#11. I can only look at the seemingly limited space under the tent and think either it's my job to change people so they fit or it's my job to extend the roof so that they fit. Either way, it's misguided because it's not my tent. It's God's tent.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#12. To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.

Robert Byrd

#13. People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided.

James Daly

#14. We are so identified with who we think we are that it limits how we can be, determines how we live, and conditions how we react. As Mark Twain said, It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble, but what we are sure we know.

Lama Surya Das

#15. Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves
their convictions and their aspirations
every day. There is nothing noble about it. It takes far more courage to fight for your values than to relinquish them.

Nathaniel Branden

#16. Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.

Larry Elder

#17. People as a whole see a limited scope of the world, chained to their notions, often misguided notions, of what truth is. Seeking something more, I would argue, is the very act of unchaining oneself from the cave wall.

Elizabeth Finn

#18. How did people get over this? They obviously did. Every day someone fell in love with the wrong person and had to pack up all their fragile, misguided hopes and unwanted affection, and move on to the next picnic table.

Josh Lanyon

#19. Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.

Dean Koontz

#20. Billions of hard, bright stars shone with relentless glitter across the tropic night sky.

James Jones

#21. People are still under the misguided impression that models don't eat. Not sure about the other girls, but I do!

Christine Teigen

#22. Whackos like Liberty Association belong in jail. I don't care if they're misguided or had bad childhoods. We've all got problems; we don't all try to kill people we disagree with.

Clancy Nacht

#23. There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the best results. It's a wrong and misguided belief by well-intentioned people.

Mitch Kapor

#24. Either harming other people is wrong, in which case God is unnecessary, or harming other people is acceptable, in which case God's admonitions are misguided.

Greg Graffin

#25. Hyperbole is sometimes necessary to get at the truth. (It seems odd, doesn't it, that we have to lie to tell the truth better?)

Kate DiCamillo

#26. We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.

Judah Smith

#27. Condemning all women in order to help some misguided men get over their foolish behaviour is tantamount to denouncing fire, which is a vital and beneficial element, just because some people are burnt by it, or to cursing water just because some people are drowned in it.

Christine De Pizan

#28. You can learn, but you've got to give yourself time to pick up the basics, to practice, and maybe even to fail once or twice.

Susan Forward

#29. His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and misguided. Reagan was surrounded by some very smart people who gave him very sound advice. They were not wondering where certain countries are on the map.

Eugene Jarecki

#30. This is how they are able to continue and endure.

Lao-Tzu

#31. There are some people...who might feel that such practices are misguided, like trying to wield heaven's powers on earth. And yet it was only in the carefully planned and created garden of Yugiri that I had found a sense of order and calm and even, for a brief moment of time, forgetfulness.

Tan Twan Eng

#32. I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all.

Richard Lewontin

#33. We will be misguided in our intentions if we point at one single thing and say that it will prevent war, unless, of course, that thing happens to be the will, the determination, and the resolve of people everywhere that nations will never again clash on the battlefield.

Leslie Groves

#34. The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.

Richard Branson

#35. People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?

Zhuangzi

#36. People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

Jared Diamond

#37. Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the same difficulties, but the big difference is the respect given by people due to the quality of the services which are provided.

Jaime Lerner

#38. People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

Bebe Neuwirth