Mistaken Quotes

• Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

  Thomas Browne

  Inspirational, May, Pebbles

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  When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

  David Hume

  Humility, Passion, Men

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• Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Justice, Diversity, Judging

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Kelly, Allan David Bloom (2010). “Emile, Or, On Education: Includes Emile and Sophie, Or, The Solitaries”, p.355, UPNE

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• He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Speak, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Laughter, Entrepreneur

  "Incidentals". Book by Carl Sandburg, 1904.

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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Relationship, Inspiring, Honesty

  Jane Austen (1816). “Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.249

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• When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.

  Scott Belsky

  Inspirational, Success, Faith

  Twitter post from Aug 18, 2010

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• I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Inspirational, Moving On, Mistake

  Performing Arts Journal Inc, James Lapine, Stephen Sondheim (1986). “Wordplays 5: An Anthology of New American Drama”, Paj Publication

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• Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

  Donald Trump

  Life, Success, Business

  FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Jun 07, 2016

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• I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Mistake, Science, Thinking

  Letter to General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, 3 Aug. 1650 See Hand 10

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• [on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

  Claude Debussy

  Beautiful, Sunset, Sunrise

  Time Magazine, December 7, 1953.

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• Unfortunately, I've never been mistaken as Johnny Depp.

  Gilbert Gottfried

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• I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

  Bill Nighy

  Bed, Might, Very Good

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Firsts, Immortality, Printing

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.230, University of Toronto Press

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• The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Men, Long, World

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.

  Henry W. Kendall

  Government, People, Technique

  Henry W. Kendall (2013). “A Distant Light: Scientists and Public Policy”, p.233, Springer

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• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  Kate Adie

  Giving, Target, Protection

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• Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken...!

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing

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• No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Perception, Doe

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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

  George Berkeley

  Philosophical, Ideas, Long

  George Berkeley (1843). “The Works of George Berkeley: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, Etc. : to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life”, p.85

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• To get the full value of joy
  You must have someone to divide it with.
  After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve
  in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden
  with her than inside it without her.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Garden, Years

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• When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Two, People

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• It's lap 26 of 58, which unless I'm very much mistaken is half way.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Lap

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• Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Time, Mistake, Book

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.51, Publishdrive

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• Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

  Kin Hubbard

  Patience, Work, Lazy

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