Quotes About Misleading

As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.

El error viene del engaño (decir mentiras)

Wer diese Worte liest - was für ein Bild bekommt er von mir? […] Kein hübsches Bild. Die Worte lügen also, in gewisser Hinsicht jedenfalls. Wie immer.

The mirrors of his face gleamed all the wrong ways when he smiled.

I think I'm dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.

The challenge is to reach out to everyone, 'especially those who have fallen for fake news and 'misleading advertisements. This government, for 56 months, misled the people by saying Modi didn't let them work.

Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.

Such guidelines might be instinctive (a long line at a restaurant probably means business is good) or societally reinforced (it's a good idea to stretch your budget when buying a house), but in either case, they are sometimes misleading.

For there are many rebellious people who engage in useless talk and deceive others. —Titus 1:10

Be doubly skeptical of graphs that have two vertical axes and omit zero from either or both axes.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

This isn't a baguette, it's shit.

Letting someone believe something that is not true produces the same result as saying something false: It is the passive version of lying.

Sean was starting to remind her of the croque-monsieur she once ordered in Nice. At first glance, it looked like a plain, cookie-cutter grilled cheese, nothing special. But when she bit into it, the cheese was Brie and there were chopped-up portabello mushrooms hidden underneath. There was a lot more to it than it had appeared. Sean

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration

What is apparent is not always what is true.

We now know that the hockey stick graph is fraudulent.

We remember the famous curve in the shape of a hockey stick… However, no serious scientist still gives it the least credit.

Ardour in well-doing is a misleading and a treacherous thing. It cries out loudly for employment; you can't satisfy it at first; it wants more and more; it is eager to move mountains and divert the course of rivers. It isn't content till it perspires. And then, too often, when it feels the perspiration on its brow, it wearies all of a sudden and dies, without even putting itself to the trouble of saying, I've had enough of this.

Someone once said that for every problem there is a solution that is simple, attractive ... and wrong.

Nada resulta más engañoso que un hecho evidente», Sherlock Holmes.

abruptly cut off by the interviewer. He got a little carried away. This is like saying Hitler was a tad aggressive.