Quotes About Mistaken

Beliefs cannot change a fact, no matter how sincerely they are held. (Someone can sincerely believe the world is flat, but that only makes that person sincerely mistaken.)

Perhaps I am mistaken. But you can scarcely blame me, ma'am, for believing that not even your remarkably impetuous granddaughter could go haring off into an adventure of this sort without realising that she was very likely to come out of it with a husband!

Schöner's maps closely resembled Behaim's, and Pigafetta could easily have mistaken one for the other

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.

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

When the impossible is eliminated, whatever remains, however improbable, is the solution ... unless you're mistaken as to just what is and what isn't impossible.

Estabas equivocada. Hermanita, hay, quizá, dos o tres mil personas en el mundo tan inteligentes como nosotros. La mayoría se está ganando la vida en algún sitio. En la enseñanza, pobres desgraciados, o en la investigación. Muy pocos ocupan realmente posiciones de poder.

One of life's sorest tragedies is that the people who brim with confidence are always the wrong people.

What do you suppose? A bee sat on my nose. Then what do you think? He gave me a wink And said, "I beg your pardon, I thought you were the garden."

Humility with energy is often mistaken for pride.

Excuse me, but I believe you have mistaken my home for your own, and my valuable belongings for yours, and I must ask you to return the items in question to me, and leave my home, after untying me from this chair, as I am unable to do it myself, if it's not too much trouble.

Nobody´s going to throw you overboard," Violet said impatiently, although I´m sorry to tell you that Violet was wrong about that.

Everything popular is wrong. ~ OSCAR WILDE

It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner. (Elizabeth Bennett)

With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done nothing — for she had done mischief.

Sir Thomas, indeed, was, by this time, not very far from classing Mrs. Norris as one of those well–meaning people who are always doing mistaken and very disagreeable things.

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;

Allow me to say, Lady Catherine, that the arguments with which you have supported this extraordinary application have been as frivolous as the application was ill-judged. You have widely mistaken my character, if you think I can be worked on by such persuasions as these.

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; but where, as in this case, though the conduct is mistaken, the feelings are not, it may not be very material.

I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.

Everyone's like, 'Oh my God, can I ask you something? You were in 'Percy Jackson,' right?' I'm like, 'No, different guy.'

Oh, McBride, it's just you." Nate heard Julian say. "I saw a flash of white and thought you were the bride.

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