Mistaken Quotes - Page 15

• Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Advice, Done, Lost

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.28, Vintage

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• Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Me thinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.

  Herman Melville

  Spiritual, Thinking, Air

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.40

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• The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Thinking, Mistress

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• You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Real, Thinking

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts of opinions in politics and in religion; yet they could not therefore have all been in the right; although they could give no stronger evidence that they believed themselves in the right.

  Lysander Spooner

  Honesty, Men, Giving

  Lysander SPOONER (1836). “The Deist's Reply to the Alleged Supernatural Evidences of Christianity, Etc”, p.6

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• If I hammer my own thumb while doing some DIY, it's not nice, but it's not the end of the world. To care obsessively about similar levels of discomfort in animals seems to be a case of mistaken moral priorities.

  Julian Baggini

  Nice, Animal, Priorities

  "Be pragmatic, not obsessive" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2009.

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• I think that people who make films and think they're changing the world are sorely mistaken. If that really is your goal, there are far better ways to do it. I'm making politically observant films for audiences.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, People, Goal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In one day, I got mistaken for three different actresses: Wendy Williams, Sherri Shepherd, and Star Jones.

  Niecy Nash

  Stars, One Day, Shepherds

  "Niecy Nash Spills to Us On Her Weirdest Hollywood Moment (And Boy, Is It Weird)" by Megan Angelo, www.glamour.com. June 26, 2012.

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• In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

  Carl Sagan

  Change, Learning, Humility

  Keynote address at CSICOP conference in 1987. "Do Science and the Bible Conflict?" Book by Judson Poling, p. 30, 2003.

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• Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.

  Michael Cunningham

  Giving, Extravagance, Youth

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• Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their souls are riven and they cry out to Him and there is no fear but only wildness of heart that springs from such longing.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Spring, Fall, Heart

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.156, Pan Macmillan

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• Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thinking, Feet, Pavement

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.396, Faber & Faber

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• People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.

  Alice Munro

  Notebook, Reading, Knowing

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• Wait," I say. "I think you're mistaken. Saying there is no dream is the same as saying everything is a dream. Isn't it? Everyone's a dreamer? Extraordinary things happen all the time even when we're awake. What I meant to suggest to you, if indeed that was me in your dream doing the suggesting, is that there is only one world. This one. The dream is real. The ordinary is the wonderful. The wonderful is the ordinary.

  Samantha Hunt

  Dream, Real, Thinking

  Samantha Hunt (2009). “The Invention of Everything Else”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Facts, Emptiness, Infinite

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• The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.

  Libba Bray

  Wind, Looks, Painful

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• He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Eye, Meaning Of Life, World

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Anna Karenina (The Illustrated Edition): 40 original pictures from the first book with illustrations in 1913”, p.428, CCEL

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• Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

  Thomas Sowell

  Identity, Remember, Trouble

  "Random thoughts" by Thomas Sowell, townhall.com. May 1, 2007.

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• Its Vermeer" Kat turned to the boy who lingered in the doorway. "It's stolen" "What can I say?" Hale eased behind her and studied the painting over her shoulder. "I met a very nice man who bet me he had the best security system in Istanbul." His breath was warm on the back of her neck. "He was mistaken.

  Ally Carter

  Nice, Boys, Men

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Spiritual, Flower, Acceptance

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.751, e-artnow

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• Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

  Terry Pratchett

  Belief, Opinion, Manners

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Truth: (Discworld Novel 25)”, p.87, Random House

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• I am an ambassador," Akretenesh warned me, anger bringing his confidence back. "You cannot shoot." "I don't mean to," I reassured him, still smiling. I adopted his soothing tones. "Indeed, you are the only man I won't shoot. But if I aimed at anyone else, it might give others a dangerously mistaken sense of their own safety." I raised my voice a trifle, though it wasn't really necessary. "We will have another vote, Xorcheus." They elected me Sounis. It was unanimous.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Mean, Men, Voice

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn and dance on the fragments in hobnailed boots, but you are mistaken. It would be a genuine pleasure. By an odd coincidence I brought a pair of hobnailed boots with me!' So saying, and recognising a good exit line when he saw one, he strode out, and after an interval of tense meditation I followed him. (Spode to Wooster)

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Aunt, Thinking, House

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “Jeeves And The Tie That Binds”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.

  Richard Dawkins

  Arrogance, Clarity

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• I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, "A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake" feeling sure I was going to learn something.

  John Muir

  Earthquakes, Feelings, Storm

  "John Muir and the March 26, 1872, Owens Valley Earthquake" by John Muir, projects.eri.ucsb.edu. 1872.

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