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Quotes About Misleading

A straight stick looks crooked under water.
~ Haitian proverb
It is the truth, but not the whole truth; and half a truth is as bad as a lie.
~ Israel Shamir
She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do.
~ Jack Kerouac
In our charade with ourselves we pretend that our war is not really war. We have changed the name of the War Department to the Defense Department and call a whole class of nuclear missiles Peace Keepers!
~ Jack Kornfield
Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
~ Robyn Hitchcock
There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.
~ John F. Kerry
For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.
~ Ellet J. Waggoner
There's less in this than meets the eye.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
There is less in this than meets the eye.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
There's less here than meets the eye.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
You look as scary as a buttered muffin.
~ Tamora Pierce
The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit started in 1917 for the purpose of facilitating more national debt, not reducing it. It still serves that purpose. It's unconnected to spending, hurts our credit rating and has been an abject failure at limiting debt.
~ David Malpass
according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
~ Henry Adams
So even the word "save" is being used in a sense that is grotesquely misleading—"destroy one version, save another" would be more accurate.
~ Neal Stephenson
the text etched onto the back of each iPhone—"Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China"—is highly misleading. The iPhone's most irreplaceable components are indeed designed in California and assembled in China. But they can only be made in Taiwan.
~ Chris Miller
Today, no company besides TSMC has the skill or the production capacity to build the chips Apple needs. So the text etched onto the back of each iPhone—"Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China"—is highly misleading. The iPhone's most irreplaceable components are indeed designed in California and assembled in China. But they can only be made in Taiwan.
~ Chris Miller
It won't work that way. You know me, Bree. You 'know' me. I might have misled things at the club. But I gave you the real man. I don't back away from a fight and I win.
~ Christine Feehan
Are you in danger? There was the merest quiver in her voice. Gregori is with me. He wasn't altogether certain that didn't fall under the heading of misleading her, but she'd been through enough.
~ Christine Feehan
Stripe felt frozen. To be so high and not high at all! It only looked good from the bottom.
~ Trina Paulus
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
~ Victor Hugo
This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.
~ Kurt Schwitters
As for the wine in the cups, it looked like water; but, as it tasted all right, what did its looks signify?
~ Lafcadio Hearn
One of the many ways how YOUTUBERS are fooling traders is that they say that see sensex has fallen only 19% and is a correction not crash but they don't add that 90% of shares have touched 75-95% fall. The fact is 99.9 % of youtubers are paid agents like mainstream news channels for fooling and misleading investors and spreading rumors
~ Lakshheish M Patel