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Quotes About Misguided

Only the misled can insist that heaven awaits the righteous while they watch the fires on Earth consume the only heaven we have ever known.
~ Barry Lopez
Human sacrifice and witch-burnings are just two examples of the harm that can result from people pursuing ends that involve figments of their imagination.
~ Steven Pinker
Nahmir is just an idiot. He just glorifies street life. He idolizes it.
~ Cordae
Hitler had the right idea, he was just an underachiever.
~ Bill Hicks
If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.
~ Susan Olsen
This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.
~ David Salle
Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.
~ Sherwood Boehlert
His heart was in the right place even if he went about it all wrong.
~ Maya Banks
He took a wrong turn—several wrong turns, and was quite lost. It
~ Beatrix Potter
In the more than fourteen years we were together we were too busy repeating old patterns learned in childhood, acting on misguided information about the nature of love, to appreciate the changes we needed to make in ourselves to be able to love someone else.
~ bell hooks
Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.
~ Bertrand Russell
Because your brain is wired to experience rewards from different facets of music than my brain, it is misguided to suggest that anyone's taste in music is superior to anyone else's.
~ Susan Rogers
What had he been Thinking? If a fella was looking for love, I was the wrong road to go down. I was the road, in fact, that was crawling with barbed wire and bears and dynamite, marked with huge signs that said THERE IS NOTHING FOR YOU HERE.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
The girls had a misguided trust in the circumcised.
~ Joshua Cohen
As far as bad ideas went, this stole the prize.
~ Julia Quinn
Millions of young people are shifting from one side to the other. They are like unguided missiles filled with energy and ambition and yet somehow not "fitting in." Peer pressure leads them astray . . . [and] in thousands of churches they are led astray theologically.
~ Billy Graham
Thirty thousand new consumer products hit store shelves each year. Ninety percent of them fail. Why? We're using misguided market-segmentation practices. For instance, we slice markets based on customer type and define the needs of representative customers in those segments. But actual human beings don't behave like statistically average customers. The
~ Harvard Business School Press
Through the misguided notion that writing about flying was easy, I had McCone become a pilot. When I learned that research in books wasn't enough, I forced myself to take lessons.
~ Marcia Muller
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
~ George Orwell
Watching well-meaning authors follow in the footsteps of someone going in the wrong direction breaks my heart.
~ Ryan Holiday
I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.
~ Elizabeth McGovern
I want our leaders to lead our country to greatness, but President Obama and his misguided policies and ideology have really fundamentally changed our country in the wrong way, more so than any president in our history.
~ Ben Quayle
Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.
~ John Milton
As foolish, and as misguided, as the child who jumps off a building because he believes he can fly.
~ Michael Crichton