Quotes About Misleading

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Half a truth is often a great lie

On a film, they'll always say there's going to be a rehearsal period, and there never is.

They say you can litter-box train them, but they lie.

The horizon curved upward to both sides. Not good, not right. Horizons do not curve up.

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I.

Every day seems to bring news about another for-profit college scam. Hundreds of thousands of students have been deceived, misled, and harassed into enrolling at these schools where they end up with a mountain of debt and a worthless degree.

The phrase 'fake news' sounds too playful, too much like a schoolchild faking illness to get out of a test.

Nothing is more misleading than to call Hitler a Fascist. Fascism is upper-class rule, buttressed by artificially manufactured mass enthusiasm

His pretty face could not make up for the fact that he had the IQ of a dead houseplant and the emotional range of a frozen pea.

Whoever had said that appearances were deceiving was only partially right

Everything about my life was a lie and remained so until after his death. What I set as my primary goal in life was all a mirage in a vast, empty desert.

Sakura: Never figured you for the artistic type. Sai: Looks can be decieving.

Looks can be decieving

No moose, Stevie said. The moose is a lie.

You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.

Even a spotted pig looks black at night.

We give disproportionate weight to whether yogurt is said to be five percent fat or 95 percent fat free. People seem to think that yogurt that is 95 percent fat free is a more healthful product than yogurt that has five percent fat.

it is the nature of avarice to mislead.

There is no greater abuse of the Bible than to proclaim in God's name what God is not saying.

Of course, ideas can always be misleading—but then so can numbers. Still, we advance by learning new ways to think, even if those ways are not infallible. Much

The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead.