False Guidance Quotes

The leaders of the people cause them to err.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.

Be wary of those who seek to steal your dream. Be even more wary of those who seek to tell you what your dream should be.

Mankind led on by gods err all too easily.

False informers and misguiders of good kings are much more perilous than if princes themselves were evil.

Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an isolated system of doctrines and whisper in their ear (instead of the sweet message of love) the barbarous gospel of hate.

A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.

The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.

Beware the advice of successful people; they do not seek company.

Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.

The worst men give the best advice

Nothing is a greater injury to the children of men than to be under the influence of a false spirit, when they think they have the Spirit of God.

To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal - to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.

Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it.

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

For the leaders of this people cause [them] to err; and [they that are] led of them [are] destroyed.

If we are leading but not closely following Christ, we are misleading.

False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken by the sun, will be pleased to see a fainter orb arise on the horizon, that may rescue him from total darkness, though with weak and borrowed lustre.

Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.