Mislead Us Quotes

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  The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Art

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.444, GENERAL PRESS

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• There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Art, Class

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• Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Arundel MSS British Museum (transl. Edward MacCurdy in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. 1)

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• A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivational, Happy, Death

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Ignorance, Eye, Doe

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  Learning never exhausts the mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

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• Art is never finished, only abandoned.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Design, Abandoned Buildings

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• Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Enemy, Surprise, Charisma

  "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (Volume II)". Book edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, November 1884 - November 1887.

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• All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.6, OUP Oxford

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• Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Marriage, Funny Love, Funny Relationship

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• The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Joy, Understanding

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• Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us.

  John Dickinson

  May, Reason, Guides

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• I would throw out the sense of nation, "good breeding," certain forms and ceremonies that govern relationships - perhaps even jealousy. We're not aware of all of them yet, though we suffer from them. And they mislead us not only about ethics but also about aesthetics.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Suffering, Ethics, Form

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• You can never get to a person's mind. You cannot know the different deeds and missions of happiness; you can't tell a screm of pleasure from one of pain. Sometimes, we can barely read pain. Neither a barometer nor a guide, pain can mislead us. Even in the body, the laws of chain reactions can be false. This is why people always want a second opinion.

  Ibi Kaslik

  Pain, Law, People

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• But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite to the great and mean, to the celebrated and obscure; the art of moderating the desires, of repressing the appetites; and of conciliating or retaining the favour of mankind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Mean, Curiosity

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1792). “The rambler”, p.233

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• 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 effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Successful, Bait, Watches

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• How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting.

  John Hagee

  Doe, Scripture, Satan

  Twitter post from Feb 01, 2015

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• Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Voice, Sound, Way

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