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Tapes, as we all know, are very powerful evidence. Tapes that are altered are powerfully misleading. — Brendan Sullivan

Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. — David Attenborough

It is beautiful to acquire knowledge, but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace, love and happiness. — Ken Keyes Jr.

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. — Bo Bennett

It's misleading to essentialize an entire society as if it were a single mind. — Steven Pinker

Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you. — Osama Bin Laden

Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education. — Luther Burbank

Hope is misleading, hope is cruel, but hope is all we have. — Meredith Black

Attention is the mind's feet; if you do not control your attention strictly, it runs into misleading pathways. — Zicheng Hong

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish — Jonathan Safran Foer

Ghosts have a way of misleading you; they can make your thoughts as heavy as branches after a storm. — Rebecca Maizel

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making. — Douglas Adams

Given the limits of our knowledge of such psychological problems as belief and motivation, the question of sincerity ... is misleading and fruitless. — Donald Weinstein

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. — Leo Burnett

If we are leading but not closely following Christ, we are misleading. — Beth Moore

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand. — Ernest Holmes

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. — Anita Brookner

Any advice which does not lead to self-improvement is misleading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading. — Robert Aickman

A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading. — Fairfax M. Cone

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about. — Brian Eno

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. — Anatol Rapoport

Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one). — Alfred Marshall

Blue skies can be misleading. — Carole Radziwill

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. — Herbert Spencer

Global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends, — Pat Sajak

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. — Augusten Burroughs

The claims made about Iraq's WMD capabilities before the invasion were inaccurate, wrong, and in some cases, deliberately misleading. — Colin Powell

Red Delicious apples, whose misleading name is a travesty. — Randall Munroe

Stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical. — Barbara Mertz

Books can be misleading — J.K. Rowling

The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other. — Milan Kundera

(One of the great emancipating results of genomics is to show that all "racial" and color differences are recent, superficial, and misleading.) — Christopher Hitchens

So when they say I'm a low-level systems administrator, that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it's somewhat misleading, — Edward Snowden

Yes,' she said, her nod and smile so American and so misleading. 'You are not supposed to be here - you're supposed to be there. — Olivia Sudjic

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. — Thomas Sowell

Dreams, Mrs. Sawyer, are misleading, because they make life seem real. When it loses the support of dreams, life dissolves. — Robert Aickman

Kundalini is almost a misleading word, unless you define it as broadly as I do. — Frederick Lenz

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading. — Corra May Harris

The statement 'the Shariah says...' is thus automatically misleading, as there is almost always more than one answer to any legal question. — Jonathan A.C. Brown

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading. — Florence Nightingale

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am. — Nancy Pelosi

Misleading and deceiving people are addicted
to a despair of longing to Death & Weakness.
That's all. — Petra Hermans

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. — John Maynard Keynes

Organized religions by their very natures are misleading. — Frank Zappa

East Africa. Had Lance been deliberately misleading when he said West instead of East? Miss — Agatha Christie

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous. — Ehud Olmert

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say. — Davy Jones

Meanings with no purpose are useful for meaningless debates on what the "meaner" meant. And that's what #politics is all about - misreading. — Will Advise

I knew that feeling of euphoria brought on by an attentive, cute guy could be very misleading. — Amy Clipston

It was like solving a misleading math equation, suddenly it all made perfect sense... — Cathrina Constantine

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. — Francis Spufford

No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong. — James D. Watson

If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions. — Angela Y. Davis

You would be amazed at how similar arrogance and confidence look at first glance. — Patrick Rothfuss

It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading. — Halldor Laxness

British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying. — Tim Harford

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. — Samuel Butler

Obfuscation is the deliberate addition of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data collection. — Finn Brunton

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety. — Stephen Young

I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and f - king whoever we wanna f - k. — Saul Williams

One morning when the air was misleading and mild with hope ... — Alice Hoffman

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form. — Immanuel Kant

Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it. — Francis Collins

A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday. — Navonne Johns

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading. — Robyn Hitchcock

The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force". — John B. S. Haldane

The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. — George Orwell

The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by ... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys — Albert Sabin

The dimple in his left cheek was ironic-it gave the impression that he was sweet as a cupcake. (Dark City Lights) — Elaine Kagan

I have learned from bitter experience how misleading appearances often are, and that a snake sometimes lies hidden under flowers. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing. — Christoph Waltz

Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature — Larry Wall

Then again. Maybe the simple diagnosis of either hetero or homo is misleading. Maybe there's just sexuality, and it's bendable and unpredictable. — David Levithan

The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything. — Marshall Fritz

Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what's inside someone until he's tested. — Daniel Rodriguez

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong. — Michael Mandelbaum

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well. — Edward Sapir

Don't try to be the missing key in my life, and I won't be the unmatched lock, that doesn't let you in. — Anthony Liccione