Mistaken Quotes

He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

Tyrion: My gentle sister seems to have mistaken me for Ned Stark. Bronn: I hear he was taller. Tyrion: Not after Joff took off his head.

I don't think I've ever been mistaken for anyone.

I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night.

A fundie claimed "God invented science". All of science is tentative and approximate, also sometimes mistaken. Is that the best God can do?

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

I like being mistaken for someone useful.

In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory.

I myself, in my heart, say that people should have all the children they want. But it's a mistaken idea, like many of our ideas that go back thousands of years, and it must be rooted out.

Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up!

Excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else, somebody who gave a damn, somebody more like myself.

Humility with energy is often mistaken for pride.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.

You've mistaken me for someone else. Do not wait on me, Ms. Lane. Do not construct your world around mine. I'm not that man." "Screw you, Barrons." "I'm not that man, either.

He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day.

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.

The people who think that the power of big business is enormous are mistaken

If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above.

If you're on the other side from me, you're not simply wrong or ill-informed or mistaken. We don't share the same country, the same values. You may not be the same kind of an American I am.

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.

Intuition is often mistaken, but not altogether.

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.

The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.

Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.

In one day, I got mistaken for three different actresses: Wendy Williams, Sherri Shepherd, and Star Jones.

Im sometimes mistaken as the wife of the chairman. I just laugh it off.

I've never been disbarred, committed or convicted of moral turpitude, and the only time I was arrested, it was a case of mistaken identity...I didn't know the guy I hit was a cop.

When I lived in Japan in the 1980s, I once was mistaken for Paul Newman, and I didn't have much more hair than I do now. My first reaction was that staying in Japan might be good for my social life.

Mistaken, always second guessing, underestimated, look I'm still around.

Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness.

Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

I think that cynicism can often be mistaken for wisdom.

Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion.

It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated.

If you think the left are going to give you your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken. Every day - every day, it is going to be a fight.

All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.

People think other things are more important than prayer, but they are mistaken.