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Quotes About Misleading

The worst experiences I've had are hotels that profess to be four or five star, when evidently they aren't.
~ Ruth Jones
The right can distort anything it wants.
~ David Brock
There are certain directors I have worked with who build up the scene and get you all excited, but when you actually do it, it falls below your expectation.
~ Vivek Oberoi
But common sense is deceptive precisely because it is based on common experience.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
Learning is relatively easy when the link between cause and effect is clear. But complex systems often sever that connection: causes remote from effects, solutions detached from problems, and feedback delayed or misleading (Cyert and March, 1963; Senge, 1990).
~ Lee G. Bolman
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
~ Mark Twain
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second-rate technology, who led them into it in the first place.
~ Douglas Adams, The Guardian
What they really mean is that "numbers can be used to confuse people, especially the gullible ones lacking basic skills with numbers." With this, I completely agree,
~ Douglas W. Hubbard
It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Os olhos, por enquanto, são a porta do engano; duvide deles, dos seus, não de mim.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Millstone sputtered, "I don't know where you're getting your information, G.T., but that's as bogus as a barking cat!
~ Joan Bauer
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
~ John Morley
People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries.
~ Michel Gondry
Every January we see these fad diets promoted. These aren't promoting healthiness, these aren't promoting a way of embracing exercise and eating fruit and veg and doing things which will actually help people.
~ Jo Swinson
When I came back from filming the 'Chandelier' video, everyone was like, 'So what'd you wear? What did the room look like? How many chandeliers were there?' And I was like, 'Well, I wore a blond wig, a nude leotard, the room was dirty, and there was no chandelier.'
~ Maddie Ziegler
If we are to rid ourselves of terrorism, we will have to genuinely believe that attempts to distinguish between 'good' and 'bad' terrorists are misleading.
~ Rajnath Singh
American psychiatry has told the public a false story over the past thirty years.
~ Robert Whitaker
Everyone liked a clean-cut guy, and they tended to forget that appearances were deceiving. His
~ Lisa Scottoline
Ei ajattelu ole yhtään sen arvokkaampaa kuin mielikuvitus tai tunne, vaan niihin rinnastettavaa. Ajattelun ylivalta johtaa harhaan.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Definitivamente el vino es un traidor, que hace ver visiones.
~ Alexandre Dumas
One morning when the air was misleading and mild with hope....
~ Alice Hoffman
The boulder they had been standing on wasn't a boulder.
~ Joe Hill
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
~ Anita Brookner
They kept saying 'It's sushi-grade!' And I'm like... 'Put some soy sauce on this. Get me some rice. And cook it. And then get me out of here.
~ Jennifer Lawrence