Mistaken Quotes

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Benjamin Franklin

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
Barack Obama

Black, Friends, Students

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Her, Mistress, Thinks

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

Positive, Voice, Top

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Ambrose Bierce

Positive, Voice, Top

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, Good, Read

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

Story, Anyone, Thinks

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

May, Religious, Piety

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

Wisdom, Laughter, Defeat

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
Kin Hubbard

Patience, Often, Lack

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen

Truth, Human, Happen

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

Self, Sure, Wild

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

Peace, Men, Alone

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Marshall McLuhan

Everybody, Except, Press

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, Fine

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
Thomas Browne

May, Sometimes, Diamonds

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.
Daniel Radcliffe

Someone, Him, Sign

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
Oliver Cromwell

May, Possible, Christ

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

Change, Science, Face

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

May, Choice, Move

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
Claude Debussy

Beautiful, Sunset, Dawn

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
Otto von Bismarck

Person, Calling, Journalist

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

Writer, Impeccable, Poe

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
George McGovern

Whole, Identity, Tragic

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.
Rick Perry

Government, America, Debt

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
Gary Oldman

Anger, Passion, Energy

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
George McGovern

War, Strong, Matter

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas William Jerrold

Rain, Passion, Duck

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

Good, Someone, Might

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion.
Tom Selleck

Time, Confusion, Star

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