Quotes About Mistaking

The folly of mistaking a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself as an oracle, is inborn in us, Mr. Valery once said.

Being cynical isn't necessarily being negative or bitter. It's a person who is wary of mistaking love for something that it's not and getting their heart broken.

These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.

We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.

Truth is like the moon in the sky. Words are like a finger. A finger can point to the moon's location, but it is not the moon. To see the moon, you must look past the finger. To look for the truth in books, the Sixth Patriarch was saying, is like mistaking the finger for the moon. The moon and the finger are not the same thing. Not same, old Jiko would have said. Not different, either.

We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.

A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends

A voice like brushed silk, and there would be no mistaking this one for his own, or for that of Mehiel.

I had the face of pleasure, and yet I had no knowledge of pleasure. There was no mistaking that face.

The gypsies may not have known the language, but there was no mistaking the tone, in whatever tongue the words were spoken.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

getting a lot of "timely" statistics are capable of overreacting and mistaking noise for information—

This is the same error as mistaking absence of evidence for evidence of absence

In my time with Mabel I've learned how you feel more human once you have known, even in your imagination, what it is like to be not. And I have learned, too, the danger that comes in mistaking the wildness we give a thing for the wildness that animates it.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss.

He'd given me permission to feel and also a reminder that, like so many people, I'd been mistaking feeling less for feeling better.

Many strategy errors emanate from mistaking the relevant industry, defining it too broadly or too narrowly p.37

Violence feels good. It's so simple and clear. There's no mistaking the winner. I like it, but I avoid going there, going to the blue place, because I think I could get lost, not find my way back, I wouldn't want to find my back because it's seductive.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.