Mistaken Quotes

God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.

If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding states, then you are badly mistaken.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

Some people are mistaken, they think birds need feed to survive, but they don't. The main reason to feed birds is to enjoy them.

It's lap 26 of 58, which unless I'm very much mistaken is half way.

Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

And honestly, if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.

In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.

there is such a mistaken notion abroad in this country that the individual who makes sharp remarks must be sincere, while the one who says pleasant things must be more or less a humbug.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it

Ubiquity must never be mistaken for biology.

The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.

I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.

We are usually mistaken in esteeming men too much; rarely in esteeming them too little.

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

Candor toward a brother must not be mistaken for confession. The latter is made to the Lord of heaven and earth in the presence of a man is authorized to hear it.

Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity.

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

I have, throughout my private war, been a she, a you,a Donna, a me, and finally, an I....If you sense distance,you're not mistaken; it's real. Welcome to my world.

She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.

Unfortunately, I've never been mistaken as Johnny Depp.

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

If they think I'm going to stop at that stop sign, they're mistaken!

Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.

None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice.

With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist.

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.

I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.

There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

Everybody's got whatever problems they have. I refuse to let somebody's mistaken beliefs affect my life.