Quotes About Misleading

What happened at the end of our last story is something called misdirection. It's what happens when you are led to believe that something is true, but in reality it's not true at all. Misdirection happens a lot in real life- especially in politics, history, education, medicine, marketing, science, religion, and the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Don't get suckered in by the comments ... they can terribly be misleading.

it is worth looking closer and remembering something Marcos Alvito told me: Statistics are like a bikini. They show so much, but they hide the most important parts.

By the glare of false science betrayd, That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind.

the two of them were at a table, eating cereal. The kind with lots of marshmallows that lied and said it was good for you on the package.

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.

his horoscope had been pretty misleading as well. It had mentioned an unusual amount of planetary activity in his sign and had urged him to differentiate between what he thought he wanted and what he actually needed, and suggested that he should tackle emotional or work problems with determination and complete honesty, but had inexplicably failed to mention that he would be dead before the day was out.

It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem.

Jennie quickly began to use language to mislead us. Or to manage a situation more to her liking.

Appearances are often deceiving.

Appearances are deceptive.

Only to those who don't know you–who are taken in by your delusive appearance of meekness and decorum.' 'I like your long words.' 'All out of crossword puzzles.' 'So educative.

I can assure you, it is not so gay as it sounds.

When an oil company executive tells American families that we don't need to be concerned with tar sands pipeline safety, it's not only misleading, it's insulting.

I don't like the term 'global warming,' because it's misleading. It implies something that's mainly about temperature, that's gradual, and that's uniform across the planet. And in fact, temperature is only one of the things that's changing.

Every time I turn on the TV, it infuriates me. You'll see an ad for Advil or Viagra and hear some monotonous voice warn you about even the smaller side effects like headaches or nausea. When you see a tampon commercial, it's all happy teenage girls running along the beach in bikinis. The dangers are beyond minimized.

Autobiographies are always written as if the author had it all mapped out with perfect foresight, ignoring the risks and uncertainties at that time. This misleads, as much as those beautiful photographs of a past holiday abstract from the heat, the mosquitoes, and the lack of connectivity.

Our duty as educators is to protect and promote public conversations about matters of educational justice, equity, and access within a lightning?fast and often misleading environment of powerful, politically motivated, and unsubstantiated opinions.

Her garbage had lied to me.

To return to the infinite regress and the futility of invoking God to terminate it, it is more parsimonious to conjure up, say, a 'big bang singularity', or some other physical concept as yet unknown. Calling it God is at best unhelpful and at worst perniciously misleading.

And sometimes all that happened was that the misleading old euphemisms were replaced by the misleading new clichés.

Perhaps that's its strength. The flexibility. The fragility. Appearances…" He paused. "…are often deceiving.

He has no intention of being misled by her. On the contrary, he laughs to himself that he's deceiving her.

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.