Quotes About Misguided

In this moralistic frame of mind, he was bound to see his opponents as benighted, misguided people, "governed by their narrow jealousies and unwarranted prejudices

He was a man of strong convictions. Some of them were offensive and all of them were erroneous.

But what is equally important, and sobering, is how often we fool ourselves. And we fool ourselves not only individually but en masse. The tendency of a group of human beings to quickly come to believe something that its individual members will later see as obviously false is truly amazing. Some of the worst tragedies of the last century happened because well-meaning people fell for easy solutions proposed by bad leaders.

What happens if your choice is misguided?' I ask, softly. Miss Moore takes a pear from the bowl and offers us the grapes to devour. 'You must try to correct it.' 'But what if it's too late? What if you can't?' There's a sad sympathy in Miss Moore's catlike eyes as she regards my painting again. She paints the thinnest sliver of shadow along the bottom of the apple, bringing it fully to life. 'Then you must find a way to live with it.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

78. And there are among them (Jews) unlettered people, who know not the Book, but they trust upon false desires and they but guess.

Religious fervor has been known to lead mankind down some pretty disastrous paths in the past.

Teoria sbagliata - Un filosofo che non poteva camminare perché si pestava la barba, si tagliò i piedi.

And what if I think you're doing this out of misguided sense of decency?" "Oh, any sense of decency I possess is most definitely misguided," he said cheerfully.

The trouble is that sometimes she gets foolish ideas in her head and doesn't know what she's doing.

Growing up I was very feminist. I had strong opinions, but I would go about my beliefs in the wrong ways.

Whoever believes that a symbolic tank parade on the alliance's eastern border will bring security is mistaken.

The fight against international terrorism isn't just a fight against a bunch of misguided extremists; it is a fight to defend the values that we hold dear.

The girl laughs. It's a harsh sound. "Lady, if you're looking for the suburbs, you already made like, four wrong turns.

Her life] had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hair-brush and told, There you go. She'd stood there for years, blinking and befuddled, brushing the can with the brush.

He's manipulating us. This is another popular but misguided way of portraying behaviorally challenging kids. Competent manipulation requires various skills—forethought, planning, impulse control, organization—that behaviorally challenging kids often lack.

A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.

came because I wished to see thee—misguided by the Red Mist of affection.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

I have never liked the phone. Ten years ago, during a misguided fit of self-improvement, I pasted smiley-faced stickers on the phone in my bedroom and on the one in the kitchen. Then I typed out two labels and taped them to the handsets. "It's an opportunity, not an attack," they read.

Hate is misguided love.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes.