Quotes About Misleading

Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.

We must keep in mind the story of the statistician who drowned while trying to wade across a river with an average depth of four feet.

Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.

good from far but far from good as the saying goes

Thus the people, who could not bear the very name of king, readily submitted to a magistrate possessed of much greater power; so much do the names of things mislead us, and so little is any form of government irksome to the people, when it coincides with their prejudices.

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.

First appearance deceives many.

They "duped the FDA, saying OxyContin lasted twelve hours," Moore said. "They lied about the addictive properties. And they did all this to grow the opioid market, to make it okay to jump in the water. Then some of these other companies, they saw that the water was warm. And they said, 'Okay, we can jump in, too.

While it sounds interesting, it was really only a headache pressed between covers.

Consciousness ("here" and "now") is not "false and misleading" because of language; consciousness is language, and nothing else, because it is false and misleading.

Not for the first time Spooner was reminded that marriage was not the straighforward assembly the instruction book led you to believe.

That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle' because it was clear it was going to be a tough job finding it experimentally. His editor wouldn't have that, and he said, 'okay, call it the God particle,' and the editor accepted it. I don't think he should've have done, because it's so misleading'.

Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ëThe LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria?í

Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.

For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.

“Among the prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing: They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray.

All the women who remain in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon, and those women will say: ëThey misled you and overcame you—those trusted friends of yours. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.í

The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.

Her prophets whitewash these deeds by false visions and lying divinations, saying, ëThis is what the Lord GOD says,í when the LORD has not spoken.

For many will come in My name, claiming, ëI am the Christ,í and will deceive many.

and many false prophets will arise and mislead many.