Misguided Quotes - Page 3

• We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.

  Judah Smith

  People, Needs, Labels

  Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Let us not rush into a vast expansion of government power in a misguided attempt to protect freedom. In doing so, we will inevitably erode the very freedom we seek to protect.

  Bob Barr

  Government, Expansion, Erode

  "Safety concerns put liberty at risk / Terrorism tips lawmakers toward giving authorities more power" by Marc Sandalow and Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. September 22, 2001.

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• Never for a moment believe that the great body of the citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and when convinced they will be ready to repair them.

  Andrew Jackson

  Mistake, Believe, Patriotic

  John Stilwell Jenkins, Andrew Jackson (2011). “Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers”, p.353, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all.

  Richard Lewontin

  Thinking, People, Worry

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions.

  Frans Johansson

  Innovation, Execution, Strings

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• If I resign any time this year, he [President Obama] could not successfully appoint anyone I would like to see in the court. ... [A]nybody who thinks that if I step down, Obama could appoint someone like me, they're misguided.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Thinking, Years, Law

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• A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. ... Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism.

  Allan Bloom

  Beautiful, Sacrifice, Egalitarianism

  Allan David Bloom (1993). “Love and Friendship”

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• Anyone who says network news cannot be profitable doesn't know what he is talking about. But anyone who says it must "always," make money is misguided and irresponsible.

  Dan Rather

  Talking, News, Making Money

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• All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself.  This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life.  The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.

  Epictetus

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity. Women who did the same thing were apt to be denounced as harlots or condemned for being unfeminine - an all-purpose word that was used to describe almost any category of female behavior of which men disapproved.

  Margaret Truman Daniel

  Women, Female, Purpose

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• Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Agonizing, Wander, Ridicule

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• I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

  Billy Crudup

  Our Society, Fantasy, Life Is

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• I'd be very suspicious of anybody that seems to have to move to the next level of expression. I distrust that: now I'm writing a book, now I'm being an actor. It should be a natural thing. I think it's a natural thing for you to act. But I think that people that feel that, because they've written one maybe quite beautiful love song that equips them to play Romeo, is probably misguided.

  Elvis Costello

  Beautiful, Song, Moving

  "Summit Talk". Option magazine Interview with Tom Waits, tomwaitsfan.com. July 1989.

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• More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

  Dick Morris

  Politics, Democrat, Worst

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• I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming - or buying software - on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.

  Ted Nelson

  Believe, Garbage Cans, Differences

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• Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners.

  Robert Higgs

  Ease, Wealth, Legitimacy

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• There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

  David Sedaris

  Devotion To God, Marshmallow, Zeal

  David Sedaris (2010). “Naked”, p.137, Hachette UK

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• Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.

  Henry Mackenzie

  Book, Ignorance, Mean

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• I hope a start at getting some oil out of the enormous Alaska field isn't indefinitely mired in a bureaucratic morass as a result of our national concern for the ecology. This concern must not be so misguided, misdirected, misused that it serves to stop economic growth, to bankrupt companies, to stifle new development, new jobs, new horizons. In fighting new pollution and stemming present pollution, exciting, sometimes costly means and methods exist and others will evolve. But blanket legislative naysaying to expanding power and energy sources is stupid, self-defeating.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Nature, Jobs, Stupid

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• Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Struggle, Eye, Views

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• Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be. I love you because of all you are and because of all you're not. And because, no matter what, you are all the man I'll ever need.

  Cindy Gerard

  Love You, Men, Brain

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• We will be misguided in our intentions if we point at one single thing and say that it will prevent war, unless, of course, that thing happens to be the will, the determination, and the resolve of people everywhere that nations will never again clash on the battlefield.

  Leslie Groves

  Determination, War, Science

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• Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression. Doctor Po: I suppose you could. Is that the case? Artemis: (head in hands) It's my mother, Doctor. Doctor Po: Yes? Artemis: My mother, she... Doctor Po: Your mother, yes? Artemis: She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy when the school's so-called counsellors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees.

  Eoin Colfer

  Mother, School, Doctors

  "Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident". Book by Eoin Colfer, 2002.

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• I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Bravery, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.11, Rajpal & Sons

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• What happens if your choice is misguided, You must try to correct it But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t? Then you must find a way to live with it.

  Libba Bray

  Choices, What If, Trying

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.226, Delacorte Press

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