Quotes About Misleading

Facts have a tendency to obscure the truth.

Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public welfare and personal security.

Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading.

Appearance Bias I understand the people I deal with; I see them just as they are. We see people not as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

The real purpose of scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you don't actually know.

Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie.

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

You always need to find the balance in the science, but the balance to talking about evolutionary theory is not to talk about creationism, that's not a balance, that's misleading and it's just wrong.

right wing's most common techniques—including the deceptive use of statistics.

A powerful, if misleading, impression that the wealthy were self-made discouraged egalitarian yearnings.

The fact that the fool is often stubborn must not mislead us into thinking that he is independent.

This critique also misreads the Copernican revolution. Yes, our perceptions misled us about our place in the universe. But its deeper message is this: our perceptions can mislead us about the very nature of the universe itself. We are prone to falsely believe that certain limitations and idiosyncrasies of our perceptions are genuine insights into objective reality.

Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.

For a long time I had her convinced that raisins were my absolute favorite, and she must never eat more than her share, when in actuality I hate raisins and was grateful someone else was eating them.

I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.

I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

It was one of those things that gave you a false feeling of soldering.

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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Women, after pursuit on his part, had found him disappointing in a way he had never fully understood. His appearance, he supposed, was misleading: he was tall, and to all intents and purposes agreeable to look at, but his longing — for home, for love, for consolation — let him down.

But books, she had found, were too powerful, and invariably misleading.