Mistaken Quotes - Page 2

• I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.

  Bela Kun

  Attitude, Certain, Comrade

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• We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Believe, Errors, Often Is

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• Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Thinking, People, Transition

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning.

  Alexander Kerensky

  Thinking, People, Suffering

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• If they think I'm going to stop at that stop sign, they're mistaken!

  Homer

  Thinking, Ifs

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• Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Depression, Running

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• Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations

  Os Guinness

  Idolatry, Dominant, Huge

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• 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.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Inquiry, Matter, Belief

  Joseph Glanvill (1979). “Collected Works of Joseph Glanvill”, Georg Olms Verlag

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• I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Pain, Hate, Believe

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• But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

  Richard Masur

  Mean, Thinking, Talking

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• The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Cost, Flaws, Fraud

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• And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.

  Anne Heche

  Mother, Prayer, Men

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• The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

  George McGovern

  Identity, Campaigns, Cases

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

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• I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.

  Black Kettle

  Giving, Soldier, Enemy

  Speaking to Colorado Governor Evans, Colonel Chivington, Major Wynkoop and others in Denver (Autumn 1864), as quoted in "The Boy's Book about Indians : Being What I Saw and Heard for Three Years on the Plains" by Edmund Bostwick Tuttle, p. 61, 1873.

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• I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

  Harry Mathews

  Dream, Able, France

  "Agent Provocateur: Harry Matthews with Johannah Rogers". The Brooklyn Rail Interview, brooklynrail.org. June 1, 2005.

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• There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.

  Charles Hermite

  Truth, Mistake, Independent

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• No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Ideas, Imagination, Trying

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

  Paul Valery

  Impeccable

  "The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe" by Julian Symons, (Pt. 1, Epilogue), 1978.

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• My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

  Gary Oldman

  Anger, Passion, Acting

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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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  Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Dream, Mistake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.206, Harvard University Press

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• If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

  Benjamin Hooks

  Leadership, Thinking, Empowering Others

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• Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong!

  Chuck Smith

  Beautiful, God, Christian

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