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.
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.
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.
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
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.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting.
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.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible.
Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us.
