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Quotes About Misled

One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we should invade Iraq and that house prices never decline may have been out of the box, but it put us into the ditch. We have been badly misled by people who persuaded us that they understood things we didn't.
~ Tina Brown
... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.
~ Catharine Beecher
I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.
~ Annette Funicello
And just as the animal is at times misled by the vital instincts, so may man go astray... whereas the ethical instinct alone enables him to discover the unique requirement of a unique situation
~ Viktor E. Frankl
are deluded and led astray by rank, blood thirsty blatherskites.
~ Charles A. Siringo
To avoid Christ in your thought at any point, then, is to be misled, untruthful, and spiritually dead.
~ Greg L. Bahnsen
The disaster at the Bay of Pigs intensified Kennedy's doubts about listening to advisers from the CIA, the Pentagon, or the State Department who had misled him or allowed him to accept lousy advice.
~ Robert Dallek
Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.
~ John Wanamaker
Let me tell you what really happened, the voice said. All those years you waited torpidly, like a sleepwalker, pulled and pushed about by others' opinions, by external pressure, by your illusions, by the official rules you internalized. You were misled by your own frustration and passivity, believing that what you were not allowed to have was what your heart was destined to embrace.
~ Ha Jin
Okay, so I fibbed a little about the kids. I didn't want her to feel bad. I mean we can't all be lucky enough to have a hamster.
~ Janet Evanovich
Fools are easily fooled.
~ Unknown
There's a lot of anger on our side. We've been lied about, we have been lied to, we've been mischaracterized, Hillary calling people deplorables and this kind of thing.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Because our current educational system now graduates students lacking even minimal historical knowledge, citizens are misled by outlandish charges Modernists make about not only Jefferson but also other Founders as well as traditionally venerated historical events. If rudimentary historical literacy is to be achieved today, it must be individually secured, for it is no longer possible to rely on public schools (and even many private schools) for this once elementary knowledge
~ David Barton
The war impulse of Italy has been destroyed, and that unhappy country is paying a terrible penalty for allowing itself to be misled by false and criminal guides. How much easier it is to join bad companions than to shake them off!
~ Winston S. Churchill
It wasn't your fault. You just lied. It was mine... for believing every word you said.
~ Unknown
By education most have been misled.
~ John Dryden
Going There Of course it was a disaster. The unbearable, dearest secret has always been a disaster. The danger when we try to leave. Going over and over afterward what we should have done instead of what we did. But for those short times we seemed to be alive. Misled, misused, lied to and cheated, certainly. Still, for that little while, we visited our possible life.
~ Jack Gilbert
Democracy is essentially government by the majority, and a majority may be stupid, unenlightened, foolish, misled, and corrupt.
~ John Hospers
WOW you played me, man I thought I was your baby.
~ Unknown
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveler.
~ John Milton
We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fantasy telling us we are bigots, racists and hate-mongers.
~ George Wallace
Don't be fooled into turning to Communism looking for food.
~ Jomo Kenyatta
We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards
~ William Shakespeare
It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely.
~ Melina Marchetta