Mistaken Quotes - Page 3

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

  Gilbert Gottfried

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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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• 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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• I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively promotes one form of education as the best course for the most people. I think the stigmas and stereotypes that keep so many people from pursuing a truly useful skill, begin with the mistaken belief that a four-year degree is somehow superior to all other forms of learning.

  Mike Rowe

  Thinking, Years, Skills

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• Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Errors, Deeds

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

  Bill Gates

  World, Disease, Poverty

  "Bill Gates: No more poor countries by 2035" by Simeon Bennett and Laura Marcinek, www.sfgate.com. January 21, 2014.

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• When I lived in Japan in the 1980s, I once was mistaken for Paul Newman, and I didn't have much more hair than I do now. My first reaction was that staying in Japan might be good for my social life.

  Paul Saffo

  Japan, Hair, Might

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Justice, Observation

  "World Politics: Trend and Transformation, 2013 - 2014 Update Edition". Book by Charles Kegley, p. 494, January 3, 2013.

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• 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.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Real, Thinking

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 16, 2012.

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• The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.

  Libba Bray

  Wind, Looks, Painful

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• But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.

  Tami Hoag

  Strong, Independent, Long

  Tami Hoag (2002). “Dark Horse”, p.34, Bantam

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• We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

  Alison Croggon

  Mistake, Mean, Evil

  "The Riddle". Book by Alison Croggon, November 1, 2004.

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• Off with you" is a phrase used by people who lack the curtesy to say something more polite, such as, "if there's nothing else you require I must be going" or "I'm sorry but I'm going to have to ask you to leave, please" or even "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'm unable to do it myself, if it's not too much trouble.

  Daniel Handler

  Sorry, Believe, Home

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• Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Facts, Emptiness, Infinite

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