Mistaken Quotes - Page 23

• But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.

  Adolf Hitler

  Education, Science, Leader

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Mean, Ideas, Important

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1998). “The Gate of Angels”, p.202, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Attitude, Islamic, Culture

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• I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

  Lawrence Block

  Writing, Thinking, Next

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• I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do.

  Neko Case

  Animal, Thinking, Rights

  "The banned played on". Interview With Leonie Cooper, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.

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• When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Ideas, Entering

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.185, Courier Corporation

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• Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Running, Crazy, Thinking

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• Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  War, Believe, Europe

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• If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

  Johann Lamont

  Men, Things In Life, I Have Learned

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• The old freedom sufficiently survives in the mind of the wage earner to give him the illusion that, while accepting insurance and maintenance from the capitalist state, he can still be a full citizen. He thinks he can have his cake and eat it too. He is mistaken. The great capitalists who procured these regulations from the politicians knew what they were at. They were catching their proletariat in a net, and now they hold it fast.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Thinking, Cake

  Hilaire Belloc (2009). “Essays of a Catholic”, p.13, TAN Books

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• The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Choices, Challenges

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.240, Vintage

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• I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.

  Martin Luther

  Might, Notion, Translate

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

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• People think other things are more
  important than prayer, but they are
  mistaken.

  Thomas Yellowtail

  Prayer, Thinking, People

  Michael Oren Fitzgerald, Thomas Yellowtail (2003). “Indian Spirit”, p.57, World Wisdom, Inc

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• A major danger for us Europeans: We must demonstrate that those who have this view of us are mistaken, that we can come to agreement, that we as a community of democratic and free nations are economically successful and are gaining political influence. To do so, we must learn to project our power.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Successful, Community, Political

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• When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.

  Blaise Pascal

  Views, Sides, Argument

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• many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Bags, Sexuality, Danger

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• In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Errors, Profound, Pieces

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems”, p.352, Bottletree Books LLC

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• The terrorists believe that free societies are essentially corrupt and decadent and, with a few hard blows, they can force us to retreat. They are mistaken.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Blow, Retreat

  George W. Bush's address to the Nation in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 28, 2005.

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• A careful blending of sarcasm, irony, and teasing, bickering has its own distinctive cadence and rhythm and is as difficult to master as French, Spanish, or any elective second language. Like Chinese, the fine points of bickering can be discerned in the subtle rise and fall of the voice. If not practiced properly, bickering can be mistaken for its less sophisticated counterpart: whining.

  Linda Sunshine

  Fall, Sarcasm, Voice

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• But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. In the 1990s the stork population of Germany increased and the German at-home birth rate rose as well. Shall we credit storks for airlifting the babies?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Baby, Home, Simple

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• Candor toward a brother must not be mistaken for confession. The latter is made to the Lord of heaven and earth in the presence of a man is authorized to hear it.

  Brother Roger

  Brother, Men, Heaven

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• Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Wish, Politics

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• I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.

  Mark Twain

  Horse, Believe, Speaks French

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.1020, Library of America

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• Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Trying

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• The question of "unreality"is a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this question have dealt with it on mistaken lines. They have regarded grammatical form as a surer guide in analysis than, in fact, it is. And they have not known what differences in grammatical form are important.

  Bertrand Russell

  Reality, Differences, Important

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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