“The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.”
David Riesman
“How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.”
Herbert Spencer
“Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right”
Charles Caleb Colton
“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
“There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.”
Thomas Sowell
“One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“I think language does bring us together. Fragile and misleading as it is, it's the best communication we've got, and poetry is language at its most intense and potentially fulfilling. Poems do bring people together.”
William Stafford
