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Quotes about Misleading

But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
— Revelation 2:20
Most are deceived by and drawn to behavior and things that seem right, good, and wise but are contrary to His wisdom.
— John Bevere
This is part of Satan's current "Big Lie." His delusion.
— Terry James
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
— Anais Nin
There are many false prophets (and false profits) out there, and all kinds of embarrassing things being done in the name of God.
— Shane Claiborne
To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.
— Joseph Wirthlin
It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words of Christ to fallacies of human production.
— Ellen White
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.
— Ray Comfort
The pre-bite dopamine blast you're now getting is the promise of more bliss, and the post-bite drop in dopamine is, in a way, the breaking of the promise—or, at least, it's a kind of biochemical acknowledgment that there was some overpromising. To the extent that you bought the promise—anticipated greater pleasure than would be delivered by the consumption itself—you have been, if not deluded in the strong sense of that term, at least misled.
— Robert Wright
Dean Bloch introduces the article he writes against me in No. 94 of this newspaper by referring to another article written against me earlier in the same paper by an anonymous author, whose article Dean Bloch (an obsequious Basil) recognizes appreciatively in the strongest and most deferential terms as what might be called a leading article. And there is something in that, for it leads astray
— Soren Kierkegaard