Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
William E. Gladstone

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.
Herbert V. Prochnow

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.
Dean Acheson

It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.
Dean Acheson

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
Idi Amin

He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.
Christine Keeler

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katharine Graham

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
Cyril Connolly

I made a big mistake of my life.
Robert Jenkins

You make a mistake, you keep going.
Linda Gray

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.
Lester B. Pearson

Anyone who relies exclusively on television for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake.
Steve Powers

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
Millard Fillmore

Every decision you make is a mistake.
Edward Dahlberg

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
Bryant H. McGill

There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.
Phyllis Bottome

We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.
Ben Bradlee

Man is nature's sole mistake.
William Gilbert

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
Bryant H. McGill

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
John Powell