Quotes About Misdirection

Anger can give you a false sense of direction when sadness makes you feel lost.

The young no longer want to study anything, learning is in decline, the whole world walks on its head, blind men lead others equally blind and cause them to plunge into the abyss, birds leave the nest before they can fly, the jackass plays the lyre, oxen dance. Mary no longer loves the contemplative life and Martha no longer loves the active life, Leah is sterile, Rachel has a carnal eye, Cato visits brothels. Everything is diverted from its proper course.

Crises expose realities and strip away obfuscation and misdirection.

Wasn't it? Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected?

There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence

The subject of the chapter is not what we might expect from the title.

Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

"My only problem with women breastfeeding in public is they never wink back." It's kind of the perfect joke because it's a bait and switch.

Cuando se afirma y se subraya tal cosa sin que tal diferencia resulte de las palabras mismas, y cuando en lugar de ello, las palabras se refieren precisamente a lo que niegan tales afirmaciones, surge la sospecha de que en tales palabras se esconde precisamente lo negado. Por lo tanto, no hay que creer demasiado en esas afirmaciones.

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they're listening to.

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

Do you understand? Do you see the forest through the trees? Do you not see what I am no longer not saying to you? If so—congratulations! Prepare to have sex constantly.

So direct and misdirect your reader, but don't tell her the meaning of anything. Not until she gets it wrong in her head.

So never dictate meaning to your reader. If need be, misdirect him. But always allow him to realize the truth before you state it outright. Trust your readers' intelligence and intuition, and they will return the favor.

What fun would a murder mystery be if the murderer was plain to see up front? Mystery relies on feeding us options and opportunities for guessing right—and guessing way wrong. A red herring is the literary technique of boldly played misdirection—the origin of the idiom is that, if you wanted to get hounds off your scent, you could use the skin of a red herring to draw their attention, thus drawing them away from their actual target. 5

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

Ama Gogol'un tüfekleri havada as?l? durur ve ateÅŸlenmez; zira onun an??t?rmalar?n?n cazibesi de, bu an??t?rmalardan hiçbir ÅŸey ç?kmayacak olmas?ndan kaynaklan?r.

I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.

A trick does not fool the eye but fools the brain. In order to do that, it must be performed so that the secret parts are not noticed.

a circuitous way of spreading confusion without offering any information of value.

I think it's leading us on a wild gundark chase.

Well, it's like I have a GPS inside me, I told them. One of the talking ones. I tell it where I want to go, and it tells me, Go twenty miles, turn left, take Exit Ninety-fourm and so one. It can be pretty bossy, frankly. Their eyes widened. Really? said one. No you idiot, I said in disgust. I don't know how it works. I just know it has an unfailing ability to point me in the opposite direction of a bunch of boneheads.

When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.