Misleading Quotes

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. (John Maynard Keynes)
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core. View quote
William James
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. View quote
Douglas Adams
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw. View quote
Stephen Cambone
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading nature of that which only superficially seems to be obvious. It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience. (Buckminster Fuller)
It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people. View quote
Walter Lippmann
I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death. View quote
Leo Burnett
It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy. View quote
Anatol Rapoport
It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading. View quote
Halldór Laxness
Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is continuous, and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating the "real" world, due to the innate discreteness of the digital computer. View quote
Doron Zeilberger
Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature. View quote
Larry Wall
I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud. View quote
Mitchell Zuckoff
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice. View quote
Bo Bennett
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. (Francis Spufford)
The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened. View quote
Grace Napolitano
If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice, however irresponsible or misleading it may be, to gain traction. View quote
John Yarmuth
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I. View quote
Matthew Lesko
Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading. View quote
Robyn Hitchcock