Quotes About Mistaken

there had always been a God and a Devil—only men had been so mistaken about the shapes of their Devil—he was not single and big, he was many and smutty and small.

All of this was well meaning bullshit. But bullshit is still bullshit and will never be mistaken for McDonald's secret sauce.

If you have to silence people who disagree with you, does that mean you have no good arguments for why they're mistaken?

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.

Habit: Often mistaken for love.

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

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.

Everywhere I go, people think I'm Helen Hunt.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

The man doesn't know his ass from his elbow.

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

I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

Before marriage she thought herself in love; but the happiness that should have followed this love not having come, she must, she thought, have been mistaken. And Emma tried to find out what one meant exactly in life by the words felicity, passion, rapture, that had seemed to her so beautiful in books.

Before her marriage, she had believed that what she was experiencing was love; but since the happiness that should have resulted from that love had not come, she thought she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to find out just what was meant, in life, by the words bliss, passion, and intoxication, which had seemed so beautiful to her in books.

Before marriage she thought hserself in love; but the happiness that should have followed this love not having come, she must, she thought, have been mistaken. And Emma tried to find out what one meant exactly in life by the words felicity, passion, rapture, that had seemed to her so beautiful in books.

I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.

You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

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.

Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.

Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.

In various ways, methods of approaching the mathematician's ideal were sought, and the resulting suggestions were the source of much that was mistaken in metaphysics and theory of knowledge.

It may be laid down as a general rule to which there are few exceptions that, when people are mistaken as to what is to their own interest, the course that they believe to be wise is more harmful to others than the course that really is wise. Therefore anything that makes people better judges of their own interest does good.

I've signed four autographs for Sam Worthington in L.A., and I haven't told any of the people that I'm not him.