Mistaken Quotes

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There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

No, I'm not mistaken. I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end. You are worth it.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly mistaken.

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because you cannot know that they are telling you their true thoughts.

More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.

What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.

To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love...

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.

The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

May God want for man to be able to be a child again to understand that he is mistaken if he thinks he can find happiness with a checkbook.

We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going ?

The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken.

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

I should have roared you down when first you told me your suspicion. But I wilted, and like a Christian, I confessed. Confessed! Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day.

The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

I believe love just happens once. You can be mistaken, you can think you are in love, but after a while you discover that youre really not. Real love is different.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

If people think they can elicit from me whatever terms they want, they are mistaken.

I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.