Quotes About Misguided

Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

Stan's well-meaning but misguided loyalty to "sorting things out," that is, to determining the one right reality about it (which was, of course, his), deprived them both of moments like the one they are having now in my office: moments of repair.

They are like people who imagine that the answer to constipation is diarrhoea.

It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.

The President certainly did not take amiss Churchill's excitement over Mediterranean operations, or even the Prime Minister's loyalty to a decaying British empire. Churchill was, he felt, merely misguided — the product of high Victorian imperialism

Most things that declare the glory of God can be perverted to worship.

My parents meant well, but the road to Hell is paved with publicity stunts.

All of which does not alter the fact that Pnin was on the wrong train.

Some misguided scientists and professors of academe possess a kind of arrogance. By misguided we mean those who are content with the extent of their formal knowledge without being characterized by its inner meaning. There is often a lack of humility in science and academia. To them, their intellectual-linear paradigms are the one true way to perceive reality.

Whistled up to London, upon a Tom Fool's errand.

are deluded and led astray by rank, blood thirsty blatherskites.

Fallen from his lofty and heroic station; now finally restored to the perception of truth; weighed to earth by the recollection of his own deeds; consoled no longer by a consciousness of rectitude, for the loss of offspring and wife a loss for which he was indebted to his own misguided hand; Wieland was transformed at once into the man of sorrow?

Much of current speculation about the nature of ETIs--what level of technology have you achieved?, etc.--is misguided. The first question an earthling should ask of an ETI is not: What is the level of your science? but rather: Did it also happen to you? Do you have a self? If so, how do you handle it? Did you suffer a catastrophe.

One of life's sorest tragedies is that the people who brim with confidence are always the wrong people.

Mainstream America is depending on you - counting on you - to draw your sword and fight for them. These people have precious little time or resources to battle misguided Cinderella attitudes, the fringe propaganda of the homosexual coalition, the feminists who preach that it's a divine duty for women to hate men, blacks who raise a militant fist with one hand, while they seek preference with the other.

Wenn einer in die Irre geht, dann heißt das noch lange nicht, dass er nicht auf dem richtigen Weg ist.

idea. Mr. Poe meant well, but a jar of mustard probably also means well and would do a better job of keeping the Baudelaires out of danger. Violet

Nobody´s going to throw you overboard," Violet said impatiently, although I´m sorry to tell you that Violet was wrong about that.

The people that live in these districts, they don't want to watch it. They don't want to see their children die or killing other people. The only people that it is entertainment to are the people in the capital that have been brainwashed and are misguided and living in a completely unrealistic kind of world.

We might be tempted to think that our democratic heritage automatically protects us from such threats. This is a misguided reflex.

I'm warning you. I'm going to get waxy. D'you see? You're not wanted. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island! So don't try it on, my poor misguided boy, or else--- Simon found he was looking into a vast mouth. There was blackness within, a blackness that spread.

Terrorism and extremism bear different names and labels. It uses diverse causes. But in each case, it is driven by distortion of religion and a misguided belief in its power to succeed.

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.