Quotes with astray

  • The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

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  • Christina Rossetti For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • George Eliot Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means - one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Andre Weil Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.
    Andre Weil
    French mathematician
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  • Alexander Herzen It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Roger Von Oech It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.
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  • Jean Rostand Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Bobby Fischer Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Oscar Wilde The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
    Source: The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aldous Huxley The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • F. Swinnnerton The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.
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  • George Villiers The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.
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  • St. Teresa of Avila To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Ryszard Kapuscinski We follow the mystics. They know where they are going. They, too, go astray, but when they go astray they do so in a way that is mystical, dark, and mysterious.
    Ryszard Kapuscinski
    Polish foreign correspondent and journalist (1932 - 2007)
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  • Matthew Prior Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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