Mistaken Quotes

• Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

  Thomas Browne

  Inspirational, May, Pebbles

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  When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

  David Hume

  Humility, Passion, Men

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• Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Justice, Diversity, Judging

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Kelly, Allan David Bloom (2010). “Emile, Or, On Education: Includes Emile and Sophie, Or, The Solitaries”, p.355, UPNE

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• He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Speak, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Laughter, Entrepreneur

  "Incidentals". Book by Carl Sandburg, 1904.

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• Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems to me. First, no one doubts that science actually works, whatever mistaken and fraudulent claim may from time to time be offered. But whether there are any miraculous cures from faith-healing, beyond the body's own ability to cure itself, is very much at issue. Secondly, the expose' of fraud and error in science is made almost exclusively by science. But the exposure of fraud and error in faith-healing is almost never done by other faith-healers.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Healing, Issues

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• 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

  Relationship, Inspiring, Honesty

  Jane Austen (1816). “Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.249

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• When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.

  Scott Belsky

  Inspirational, Success, Faith

  Twitter post from Aug 18, 2010

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• 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

  Inspirational, Moving On, Mistake

  Performing Arts Journal Inc, James Lapine, Stephen Sondheim (1986). “Wordplays 5: An Anthology of New American Drama”, Paj Publication

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

  Donald Trump

  Life, Success, Business

  FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Jun 07, 2016

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• So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

  George Berkeley

  Philosophical, Ideas, Long

  George Berkeley (1843). “The Works of George Berkeley: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, Etc. : to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life”, p.85

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• When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

  David Hume

  Men, Stupidity, Arrogance

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• 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

  Friends, Leather Jackets, Rocks

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.100, Canongate Books

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• 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.

  Charles Rosen

  Confidence, Past, May

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Positive, Voice, Certainty

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz (1998). “A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography”, p.18, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• 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

  Stars, Numbers, Confusion

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• Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

  Warren Beatty

  Motivational, Children, Narcissistic

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

  Edmund Burke

  Religious, Atheism, Zealous

  Speech, 18 February 1788, in E. A. Bond (ed.) 'Speeches...in the Trial of Warren Hastings' (1859) vol. 1, p. 104

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• 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

  Life, Rain, Passion

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• A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Calling, Journalism, Journalist

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• Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Mistake, Cases, Egotism

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Jane Austen

  Self, Wild Imagination, Literature

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1554, Ageless Reads

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• Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance when in reality it is the opposite. When we can recognize all our good qualities as well as our faults with neutrality, we can start to appreciate ourselves as we would a dear friend and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect. To embrace the journey towards our full potential we need to become our own loving teacher and coach. Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings we develop true regard for ourselves and our life will become sacred.

  Rajneesh

  Teacher, Healing, Journey

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• I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.

  Bela Kun

  Attitude, Certain, Comrade

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• 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.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Believe, Errors, Often Is

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