Misled Quotes

“Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“We stay the same as we've always been, keeping to the path we've walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only one to walk – that anyone not walking it with us is being misled.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

“If I’m chasing the wrong thing, what I’m chasing will end up chasing me. And in the end, I’m less likely to be the one doing the catching.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I’m ignoring behind me. Instead, it’s most certain to drop it on top of me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I have attached anything to sacrifice other than loss, I have at some level assumed a pay-off. And if I’ve assumed a pay-off, I’m only assuming a sacrifice.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“One of the greatest lies is to believe that we don’t have value. One of the greatest mistakes is to act on that belief. And the greatest liberation is found in looking at the cross of Christ and realizing the enormity of the lie.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Due north’ on my compass is largely ‘due’ to the fact that in ‘due’ time I have been ‘unduly’ lax in recalibrating my compass. And I’m apparently ignorant enough to wonder why I’m lost.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough to be contained by the answers. The real question might be, are we ignorant or just plain stupid?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really ‘lived’ a day in our lives.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you think that climate change and global warming are not going to affect you, then you are easily misled.”
― Steven Magee

“In reality, "reality TV shows" are staged and scripted.”
― Robert Black

“I wonder if it’s in losing everything that we realize that all we’ve lost is the ‘nothing’ that we mistakenly thought was ‘everything.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is true that when we seek great things we most often never find them, for we have created a sense of what great things look like, what the nature of them is, and in what manner they should arrive. And what we discover is that we are typically wrong on all accounts.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“The greatest sign of intelligence is realizing that we’re not.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I scan the expanse of my heart and find it empty of everything except emptiness, it is because I ‘poured’ the whole of my passion into something other than God. And anything other than God will always be too ‘poor’ to be able to ‘pour’ back anything that can fill that kind of emptiness.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Although they are entirely different, a ‘road’ and a ‘berm’ sit right alongside each other. The former is for the traveler while the latter is for the spectator. And because they sit in such close proximity to each other, there have been far too many times where I thought myself to be walking on the road when I was in fact sitting on the berm.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I will be the first to confess that I have too often let my desires run as a spoiled child in the gluttonous pursuit of some rogue agenda that I have skillfully justified as enhancing the greater good, when in fact it enhances nothing more than my greater good. And when I force myself away from the pithy arguments and the reeking pabulum that I have cleverly crafted to justify these actions, I find myself standing toe-to-toe with the very monster that I have so ardently advocated for. And more times than I can tell you, I find myself standing in this place shamed beyond the scope of words to express. And until I submit the barking agenda of my ‘good’ to the ‘greatness’ of God’s character, I will die at the hands of this most horrific cycle.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I feel very misled by the USA government regarding COVID-19.”
― Steven Magee

“These men mislead fools or misled fools themselves.
I rather take 12 breaths
and rely on my common sense.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“How often have we taken up arms in some crusade that appeared so impeccably brilliant, indisputably praiseworthy, and immeasurably grand that we came to believe that the crusade itself transcended all of the truth that would show it to be none of those things? And in the end, how many times were the arms that we took up in such a crusade discharged in our direction?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you think the USA is the ‘Greatest Nation On Earth’, you are easily misled.”
― Steven Magee

“I can teach a cat to bark and feed it dog food all of its life, but it will still be a cat. However, what it won’t be is a cat that enjoyed everything that it was to be a cat.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You are easily misled if you think development of Space is a harmless activity.”
― Steven Magee

“You are easily misled if you think the medical profession is going to fix your sickened mind and body.”
― Steven Magee

“If you believe the government and corporate propaganda about 5G being harmless, you are easily misled.”
― Steven Magee

“If you think high altitude professional astronomy is harmless, you are easily misled.”
― Steven Magee

“If you think everything is on the internet, you are easily misled.”
― Steven Magee

“If you think the Boeing 737 Max 9 is the only issue the USA airline has, you are easily misled.”
― Steven Magee