Toussaint Louverture

Citizens, not less generous than myself, let your most precious moments be employed in causing the past to be forgotten; let all my fellow-citizens swear never to recall the past; let them receive their misled brethren with open arms, and let them, in future, be on their guard against the traps of bad men.

Haitian Leader

Gina McKee

I've had two instances when I've met journalists face to face and we've had good interviews and I've said, 'We don't have children, by the way,' and then they've written it. I'm not sure what that's about. As misleading facts go, it's not a terrible one but it isn't true - we don't have kids.

English Actor

Simon Singh

Part of the problem is that if anybody has a gut reaction about an issue, they can go online and have it backed up. That said, they can also find support for their ideas in the mainstream media - because when the mainstream media gives a so-called balanced view, it's often misleading.

British Author

Vicky Krieps

Whenever money is in the game, it can suffocate anything and anyone else, and I think people have been misled by money, or the dream of money, or selling the dream that if you've made it money-wise, you've made a life. Which is a lie. You don't get happiness by money.

Luxembourger Actress

John Hawkes

I think we've all been misled, at moments in our lives, certainly in school situations, and things like that, with getting with the wrong group briefly, or falling in with someone who we learn the truth about and no longer want to really be with.

American Actor

Noreena Hertz

Our guts can really mislead us. Sometimes, what we think of as our gut is something else, like an outside influence. If you're going to buy an apartment and it smells of freshly baked bread, you're more likely to want to buy it.

English Author

Sai Baba

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

Indian Leader

Francis Collins

Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.

American Scientist

Will Poulter

I feel character description from a book can mislead you and actually make you fall off course when you're representing a character using a script.

John McEnroe

I'm a tell-it-like-it-is kind of person; I don't like being misled or someone not telling the truth. That upsets me.

American Tennis Player

Mislead has a negative tone, suggesting dishonesty or deception.

Negative Connotation

'Mislead' can be unintentional, without the aim to deceive.

Not Always Intentional

Being misled often leads to feelings of betrayal or hurt.

Emotional Effect

Even technology like GPS can mislead due to errors or outdated data.

Technology Errors

Mislead means guiding someone the wrong way, not just giving false information.

Literal Misdirection

Authors use 'mislead' in stories to create surprise or plot twists.

Common in Narratives

 These techniques are known as cherry picking. A time range can be carefully chosen to exclude the impact of a major event right outside it. And picking specific data points can hide important changes in between. Even when there's nothing wrong with the graph itself, leaving out relevant data can give a misleading impression.

How to spot a misleading...

 than data divided into misleading or arbitrary categories. All we can do is carefully study the actual situations the statistics describe and consider whether lurking variables may be present. Otherwise, we leave ourselves vulnerable to those who would use data to manipulate others and promote their own agendas.

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 so that they may better navigate our misleading reality. While it may seem silly, the disconnect between the world as it appears and the greater truth behind it is one of philosophy's most vexing problems. It's been the subject of thousands of pages by theologians,

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 talk about life after fossil fuels and climate change action I think there's a lot of fluff a lot of green wash a lot of misleading advertising and I feel a duty as a physicist to try to guide people round the claptrap and help people understand the actions that

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 that the left side controls logic and the right, creativity. And yet, this is a myth unsupported by scientific evidence. So how did this misleading idea come about, and what does it get wrong? It's true that the brain has a right and a left side.

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 indulging thoughts and behaviors that still give them a starring role in this next chapter of your life when they shouldn't be an extra. Getting over heartbreak is hard, but if you refuse to be misled by your mind and you take steps to heal,

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 and reporting on risk can be misleading, especially when it shares some numbers in absolute terms and others in relative terms. Understanding how these measures work will help you cut through some of the confusion and better evaluate risk.

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 public systems were allowed to operate we had never seen a monopoly like the depredations of electricians in the history of the world they lied they misled everybody they had incredible political power we've never seen that

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 Another motivation, of course, is climate change. And when people talk about life after fossil fuels and climate change action, I think there's a lot of fluff, a lot of greenwash, a lot of misleading advertising,

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 this the spider I gotta tell you is the worst creature of the world using her disguise and the scent of her prey to mislead the other hats she makes her escape once at a safe distance she sucks