Quotes About Misleading

In all aspects of our society we overcomplicate things under the guise of making things easier and simpler, when in fact we are doing the opposite.

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

Things can fool you sometimes.

It may be true that you can't judge a book by its cover, Daisy G. had told Blister just last summer. But the cover tells you something about the book and don't ever pretend it doesn't.

Like many spells with unusual names, the Unrobed Ladies was a great deal less exciting than it sounded.

Satan is the master of the ultimate double-talk and sophistry. He calls evil good and continues to confuse men with his cleverly disguised untruths.

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

Appearances can be deceiving, Joe. In fact, they nearly always are.

My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one.

She's a jellyfisher: You have a conversation with her that seems all nice and friendly, then you suddenly feel like you've been stung and you don't know where it came from.

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

The singularity of the term "psychology" should not mislead one into thinking that such a discipline was ever successfully founded. Or that there is an essence to "psychology" that could encompass the various definitions, methodologies, practices, world-views, and institutions that have used this designation.

fundamental difference in approach can make the short stories of Stella Gibbons seem somewhat obvious in their tone. And yet this is misleading: these stories are not obvious at all; they simply adhere to a storytelling convention that has been lost sight of in our quest for greater depth of characterization and psychological insight.

A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.

Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.

The interesting thing about averages is that they hide the truth very effectively.

The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.

Don't tell me it's raining when you're peeing on me!

but even the facts do not always tell the truth

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose like a broken butterfly wing.

Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.