Mistaken Quotes

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.

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

If I'm not mistaken, I think Data was the comic relief on the show.

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

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.

When I was a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl.

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.

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

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

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.

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.

President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.

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.

I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

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

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.

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

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

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.

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.

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.

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

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

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

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.

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.

If people think they can elicit from me whatever terms they want, they are mistaken.