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• I think that anybody who thinks science is going to explain everything in biological systems, or in physical cosmology, et cetera, is actually mistaken, because I think within science - if correctly understood - those claims are not being made.

  George Coyne

  Thinking, Made, Claims

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that a little sugar - coating of untruth helps the spread of truth are mistaken and will find in the long run that a single drop of poison poisons the whole mass ... The man who is pure, and who dares, does all things.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Running, Lying

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3810, Manonmani Publishers

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• In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Class, House, Ordinary

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.922, Delphi Classics

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• All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.

  Charles Frazier

  Grandchildren, Men, Passing On

  Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.412, Random House

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• A general in time of war is constantly bombarded by reports both true and false; by errors arising from fear or negligence or hastiness; by disobedience born of right or wrong interpretations, of ill will; of a proper or mistaken sense of duty; of laziness; or of exhaustion; and by accident that nobody could have foreseen. In short, he is exposed to countless impressions, most of them disturbing, few of them encouraging. ... If a man were to yield to these pressures, he would never complete an operation.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Men, Errors

  Carl von Clausewitz (1989). “On War”, p.193, Princeton University Press

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• If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

  Saint Augustine

  Book, Scripture, Contradiction

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• Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named in his honor, and you don't have galvanometers named after you merely for making a mistake about a frog.

  Will Cuppy

  Mistake, Ideas, Honor

  Will Cuppy (1951). “How to Get from January to December”

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• My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When I grew up in Kabul, it couldn't be mistaken for Beirut or Tehran, as it was still in a country that's essentially religious and conservative, but it was suprisingly progressive and liberal.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Country, Religious, Memories

  "For Afghanistan With Love". Interview with Ilana Teitelbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Mad, Wicked, Church

  "Unreasonable behaviour" by David Beresford, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2007.

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• True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Rude, Weakness

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. II), 1916.

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• Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.

  Eden Phillpotts

  Gentleman, Found, Impress

  Eden Phillpotts (1934). “A year with Bisshe-Bantam”

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• Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Intellectual, Faces

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• I like being mistaken for someone useful.

  Helen Humphreys

  Helen Humphreys (2010). “Coventry: A Novel”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, Often Is, Mind

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”

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• The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Ideas, Battle, Youth

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• I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen. As a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl. Before you reach that age where your sexuality starts to display itself, kids can look very androgynous, and I guess I leaned more toward the feminine. All those things were very hard, growing up, because you're trying to create an identity, and you're feeling shameful about the one that you're making. So, I identified with it a lot.

  Matt Reeves

  Girl, Growing Up, Being Single

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• My personal opinion...is that pocket watches will almost completely disappear and that wrist watches will replace them definitively! I am not mistaken in this opinion and you will see that I am right.

  Hans Wilsdorf

  Personal Opinions, Pocket Watches, Pockets

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• Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

  John Locke

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Long

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• When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.

  John Wesley

  Mistake, Past, Years

  John Wesley (1841). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.”, p.376

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• This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind , and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections:;; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.

  John Locke

  Reading, Thinking, Giving

  John Locke, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, Nathan Tarcov (1996). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, Hackett Publishing

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• There's this kind of incredibly mistaken idea that because it's so much cheaper to roll the camera than it used to be and it's so much easier to accumulate a ton of footage, that then you can just go shoot a ton of footage and the editor will make sense out of it. But if you don't have something deliberate made, you're not gonna save it in the editing room.

  Ethan Hawke

  Editing, Editors, Ideas

  "Ethan Hawke's fifth elements". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 14, 2012.

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• I do spend a great deal of time alone. I'm not very gregarious. I don't like parties and miscellaneous gatherings with no particular purpose. I think parties are largely a mistake. The bigger they are the more mistaken they are.

  William S. Burroughs

  Mistake, Party, Thinking

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• The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.

  Ivan Illich

  Military, Race, Productive Work

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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• I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it

  Napoleon Bonaparte

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• It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the manipulation of human life. ... Islam has also had moments of great splendor and decadence in the course of its history.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Islam, World

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