Mistaken Quotes

Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.

There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened.

There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.

Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often.

Skepticism is forever whispering in your ears. You're very new at this. You may be mistaken. You've been wrong before.

Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.

I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.

Concentration is sometimes mistaken for grumpiness.

Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common." (Locke Lamora to Requin)

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.

how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.

Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.

All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.

To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of referring to something, they refer to nothing.

Bravery and Stupidity can often be mistaken for the other.

The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.

Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.

The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.

Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.

My father used to say: "Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common."

But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

I was the funny, outgoing kid who didn't understand how he could keep getting mistaken for a nerd nobody liked.

But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.

It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.

How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?

One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.

I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.

I admire ventriloquists, because I can't do that. I mean, I might get mistaken for a ventriloquist dummy every now and then, but I can't do what they do.

Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite mistaken as to what their motives are.

My anti-liberal position should not be mistaken for conservatism.

I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave ma a relaxex manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power.

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

I think I would have liked to have been a twin... Sometimes my sisters and I get mistaken for twins, and I always take it as a compliment.

When Ballesteros triumphed at the British Open in 1979, for his first major win, he hit so few fairways off the tee that he was often mistaken for a gallery marshall.

Some of you may think that you are not of interest because you don't have access to classified information. You are mistaken.

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood.

Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.

I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes.