These misguided quotes will inspire you. Misguided is led or prompted by wrong or inappropriate motives or ideals or having or showing faulty judgment or reasoning.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging misguided quotes, misguided sayings, and misguided proverbs.
Famous Misguided Quotes
- “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “We have guided missiles and misguided men.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.” ~ Douglas MacArthur
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“Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.” ~ Charles Colson
- “To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.” ~ Robert Byrd
- “People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.” ~ Bebe Neuwirth
- “Forgiveness … is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.” ~ Joan Z. Borysenko
- “The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam was an extremely misguided variation on the Eve design. (Consider testicles. Two concentrated nuclei of absolute vulnerability. Where? Dangling between the legs. I rest my case.)” ~ Glen Duncan
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“It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm’s way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.” ~ Dave Matthews
- “Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.” ~ Louise Slaughter
- “Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.” ~ Sherwood Boehlert
- “The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.” ~ Jack Kornfield
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“Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.” ~ Iris Murdoch
- “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in our ability to reestablish the spiritual needs of our lives in personal character and social justice. Without this spiritual and moral reawakening, we shall destroy ourselves in the misuse of our own instruments.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men. And so Christ’s words from the cross are written in sharp-edged terms across some of the most inexpressible tragedies of history: ‘They know not what they do’.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration’s proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region is not only misguided but also will not achieve the intended goal of raising money for the treasury.” ~ Greg Walden
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“We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.” ~ Tim Pawlenty
- “People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided.” ~ James Daly
- “Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men.” ~ Sargent Shriver
- “To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he’s just much misguided. He’s boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.” ~ Dan Castellaneta
- “Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery” ~ Helen Hayes
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“Disciples who are steadfast and immovable do not become fanatics or extremists, are not overzealous, and are not preoccupied with misguided gospel hobbies.” ~ David A. Bednar
- “We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration.” ~ Rick Perry
- “We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.” ~ Dick Cavett
- “I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.” ~ John Green
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“I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don’t want them to vote. I want them to go on vacation in November.” ~ Sean Hannity
- “Lack of love from parents often motivates their children to go searching for love in other relationships. This search is often misguided and leads to further disappointment.” ~ Gary Chapman
- “There’s a willful ignorance. We indulge people who are willfully misrepresenting the facts. I don’t think those [anti-choice] congresspeople are as much benignly misguided as they are intentionally and willfully ignorant of the facts of reproduction. That lends itself very well to them being ideologically driven and carrying out agendas that, if they were to be really honest about the facts, would be a tougher sell.” ~ Willie Parker
- “A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about the nature of love. Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that love means we will not be challenged or changed.” ~ Bell Hooks , Misguided quotes love
- “Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of the misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves-their convictions and their aspirations-every day. There is nothing noble about it. It takes far more courage to fight for your values than to relinquish them.” ~ Nathaniel Branden
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“Looking for the good in everything is equally as misguided as looking for the bad in everything.” ~ Joseph Curiale
- “I was reminded that it is my obligation not only as an elected official in a pluralistic society, but also as a Christian, to remain open to the possibility that my unwillingness to support gay marriage is misguided.” ~ Barack Obama
- “We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before.” ~ Lester R. Brown
- “This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus’ message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy that our world desperately needs to hear.” ~ Rob Bell
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“A lover would find lifeless broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.” ~ Phyllis McGinley
- “If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try to add my humble efforts to use Science to the betterment of the human race. I despair of the helter-skelter methods of our vaulted homo sapiens, misguided by his ignorance and his politicians. If we continue our ways, there is every possibility that the human race may follow the road of former living races of animals whose fossils proclaim that they were not fit to continue. Religion, laws and morals is not enough. We need more. Science can help us.” ~ Leo Baekeland
- “Recent events in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reaffirmed for me, however, the complete folly of any Republican strategy to increase black representation in the Republican Party by appeals based on race. Whatever the name- ‘African American Outreach’ or ‘Black Republicans for Bush’- any effort to attract blacks or any other ethnic group to the Republican party, based on explicit or implicit appeals to race or ethnic identity, are not only a waste of time and resources, but are also misguided and potentially quite damaging to the nation.” ~ Ward Connerly
- “The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a certain balance, and that mutual control indispensable to a wise administration. They were convinced that popular assemblies are frequently misguided by ignorance, by sudden impulses, and the intrigues of ambitious men; and that some firm barrier against these operations was necessary. They, therefore, instituted your Senate.” ~ Alexander Hamilton
- “As a gender variant visual artist I access ‘technologies of gender’ in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body. I name myself. A gender abolitionist. A part time gender terrorist. An intentional mutation and intersex by design, (as opposed to diagnosis), in order to distinguish my journey from the thousands of intersex individuals who have had their ‘ambiguous’ bodies mutilated and disfigured in a misguided attempt at ‘normalization’. I believe in crossing the line as many times as it takes to build a bridge we can all walk across.” ~ Del LaGrace Volcano
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“We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197” ~ Daniel Libeskind
- “(After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values. All they desire is continuation of what they had in life no matter how misguided or degraded. . . Will those people ever progress, even with our help?” ~ Richard Matheson
- “…And perhaps you can sense, in some small twisting loop of your gut, the convergence of the wrong, of the right, and of the woefully misguided. If you do, then pay sharp attention to the moment you wake, and the moment you fall asleep…For maybe then you will know, without a shadow of a doubt, which is which.” ~ Neal Shusterman
- “Washington continues to encourage ever more ill-considered lending in a misguided attempt to stave off needed market corrections. The currently proposed combination of a nationwide infrastructure spending orgy plus tax-cut bribes does nothing to remedy that.” ~ Michelle Malkin
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“As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.” ~ Seth Godin
- “He shook his head. “Some people think that they like music, but they have no idea what it’s really about. They’re kindding themselves. Then there are people who feel strongly about music, but just aren’t listening to the right stuff. They’re misguided. And then there are people like me.”
“People like you,” I said. “What kind of people are those?”
“The kind who live for music and are constantly seeking it out, anywhere they can. Who can’t imagine a life without it. They’re enlightened.”” ~ Sarah Dessen - “Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it’s shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn’t he? When a son cuts somebody’s throat the mother only sees it’s possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil – and she’s entirely right about that!” ~ Booth Tarkington
- “If you think “sagging,” and, how many women you’ve got, and how big a chain you’ve got, and how much dope you’re slangin’, and how much money you’ve got in your pocket makes you a “man,” then you’re sadly mistaken. You’re going to be a misguided soul your entire life.” ~ Steve Harvey
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“Learning to trust yourself and what you know takes time and work. You cannot expect to eradicate a lifetime of misguided information overnight. You must make a continuous, conscious effort to get on good terms with you.” ~ Iyanla Vanzant
- “As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and misguided in your head. It is harder when the product of your mind can be criticized by others. Of course, it is a rare human who admits that he has been persuaded that he is wrong. But it is even rarer for a human to ignore when he has been proven wrong. The writing of ideas, arguments, and criticism improves democracy.” ~ Lawrence Lessig
- “We know what willpower is, but by some misguided conception, many of us believe we have to be a certain type of person, strong, determined, extroverted, to be able to be willful, to exercise willpower. Not so. We all have it and just don’t know how to use it.” ~ Rosemary Altea
- “Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most fundamental beliefs. It has the potential to threaten the sacred family bonds at the very core of our ideals and our society. At its worst, it could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kind of children — to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals.” ~ William J. Clinton
- “Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies–misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have endangered our nation and our future. His argument for the morality, the honesty, and the humility of atheism is galvanizing. It is a relief that someone has spoken so frankly, with such passion yet such rationality. Now when the subject arises, as it inevitably does, I can simply say: Read Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation.” ~ Janna Levin , Misguided quotes belief
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“The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It’s more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.” ~ Gretchen Rubin
- “Pakistanis can’t trust. They’ve seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they’re misguided by people in the name of Islam. They’re told: ‘Malala is not a Muslim, she’s not in purdah, she’s working for America.” ~ Malala Yousafzai
- “Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that leaves us feeling victimized and martyred. Rather, it is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.” ~ Joan Z. Borysenko
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“Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz. Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead.” ~ Jedediah Bila
- “We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them; and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.” ~ Alfred Adler
- “We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them; and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.” ~ Alfred Adler
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“The conservative candidate who ignores moderates is as misguided as the moderate candidate who ignores conservatives.” ~ Mike Lee
- “When we contemplate the duration of the universe, we see it limited to the present moment, which is nothing more but the point which separates two infinities of time. The past and the future are as meaningless as if they did not exist. Is anyone more misguided than the man who barters an eternal future for a moment which passes quicker than the blink of an eye?.”” ~ Ibn Hazm
- “Donald Trump has encouraged Russians to cyber-hack the United States to give him an edge in an election. And that just shows how serious and seriously misguided Donald Trump is.” ~ Tim Kaine
- “I believe my friends and neighbors there are misguided. I think they are not going to get what they hoped for. But they feel betrayed by the Democratic and Republican establishment.” ~ Tucker Carlson
