Top 236 Astray Quotes & Sayings

Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?

Whenever I have tried to do anything For Money it has always led me astray.

Passion without focus can lead you astray.

Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.

It is the easiest thing in the world to go to astray, but always difficult to return.

[George W.] Bush was led astray and we were led astray.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

I believe the processes of good governance have gone astray. Specifically there is an erosion of transparency, independence and accountability.

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this church to lead you astray.

The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.

Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.

I trust my instincts. I don't distrust them. They haven't led me astray. It's when I've made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.

Searching for precious goods leads astray.

Science, pure science, is leading us in a sense astray. Leading us astray with the idea that everybody has got to have everything that they want even if it means polluting the entire environment. It is a case of lets just keep one or two canisters of the smallpox virus because we'll never know when we might need it. Science is becoming very much a Dark Power, in many ways.

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause. If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and loose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well - in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit.

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.

We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray.

Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Excessive caution can sometimes lead one as far astray as rash enthusiasm.

But you don't need to worry. The Lord will never let his mouthpiece lead the people astray.

Lambs have little chance to follow the right path if the shepherds go astray.

We should never listen to our feelings. They lead us astray.

The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.

For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.

Youth has a right to go astray now and then Feeling themselves oppressed by the benevolence.

In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is...

The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.

I think that it's more important for an economist to be wise and sophisticated in scientific method than it is for a physicist because with controlled laboratory experiments possible, they practically guide you; you couldn't go astray. Whereas in economics, by dogma and misunderstanding, you can go very sadly astray.

You know, my goal, once I leave the music business, is like, 'Man, Lupe didn't lead us astray.' It comes directly from Islam: leading people astray is the worst thing you could do. Especially in perpetuity; like, your music continues to go on and live without you. That risk is too great for me; I'm gonna keep it positive.

I say to Israel, the Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this Church to lead you astray. It is not in the program. It is not in the mind of God. If I were to attempt that the Lord would remove me out of my place, and so He will any other man who attempts to lead the children of men astray from the oracles of God and from their duty.

I don't think things will lead me astray, as long as I'm tapped into myself.

Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.

I think that we want to be led slightly astray when we're being told a story. Just a little wrong footed.

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.

Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble.

To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.

I believe for everyone who goes astray, someone will come to show the way.

Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.

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.

Children...will never go astray while they are in good company.

The beautiful thing about this adventure called faith is that we can count on Him never to lead us astray.