Misrepresentation Quotes

• Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

  George Washington

  Rumor, Flow, Serious

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1836). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. IV. Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life: (v. 10) May, 1789-November, 1794. (v. 11) November, 1794-December, 1799”, p.124

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• By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Goal, Delay

  Dalai Lama's letter to Deng Xiaoping, www.officeoftibet.com. March 23, 1981.

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• Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Long, Doe

  Charles Darwin (2010). “Natural Selection”, p.202, Bibliolis Books

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• Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Origin Of Species, Natural Selection

  1859 The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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• Don't make misrepresentations to anyone you deal with. If you believe the other person may have misunderstood you, correct any misunderstanding you find exists. Honesty is integral to ethical behavior, and trustworthiness is essential for good, lasting relationships.

  Buck Rodgers

  Honesty, Believe, Misunderstood

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• Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

  George Eliot

  Life, Writing, Letters

  Letter to Mrs Peter Taylor, 8 June 1856

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• I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.

  Radha Mitchell

  Mean, Phones, Agents

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• It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Psychology, Study, Prison

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• Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Attitude, War

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• To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

  Fabius Maximus

  Men, Office, Opinion

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• Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Heart, Yield

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.19, New World Library

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• That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.

  Alexander Haig

  Trust, Lying, Government

  "Would I Lie To You?" by Leigh W. Rutledge, 1998.

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• The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Rumor, Vacuums, Poison

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• The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Religious, Mistake

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• The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Communication, Poison, Void

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• The charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air built on misrepresentation, supported by unfounded fear, held aloft by hysteria.

  John Ashcroft

  Air, Hysteria, Castles

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• I feel like [terrorism] acts are un-Islamic. So to see that happen and somebody do that in the name of God, it just - and the religion that you practice, it just - it hurts your heart so deeply because it's such a misrepresentation of the faith.

  Mahershala Ali

  Hurt, Islamic, Heart

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.

  Eric Hoffer

  Movement, Facts, Mass

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.

  Marvin Harris

  Vegetarianism, Meat Eating, Victory

  Marvin Harris (2011). “Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures”, p.229, Vintage

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• The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Christian, Jesus, Lakes

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures”, p.373, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Class, Training

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky (2010). “American Power and the New Mandarins”, p.404, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Misrepresentation, false propaganda, innuendoes soon sprout into poisonous weeds, and before long the people find themselves victims of a pollution that has robbed them of their individual liberty and enslaved them to a group of political gangsters.

  David O. McKay

  Weed, Long, People

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• History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Essence, History, Mind

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• It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation.

  Karen Russell

  Long, Red, Realist

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As I say at the beginning of my workshops, 'Everything I say here is a lie -- bullshit, in other words -- because anything that you put in words is not experience, is not the experiment. It's a representation -- a misrepresentation.

  John C. Lilly

  Lying, Bullshit, Experience

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