Mistaken Quotes - Page 21

• I believe love just happens once. You can be mistaken, you can think you are in love, but after a while you discover that youre really not. Real love is different.

  Adriana Lima

  Real, Believe, Love Is

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• Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.70, Commodius Vicus

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• Everybody's got whatever problems they have. I refuse to let somebody's mistaken beliefs affect my life.

  O. J. Simpson

  Belief, Problem, Refuse

  "O. J. Simpson: 10 years later". Interview with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. June 18, 2004.

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• For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.

  Alben W. Barkley

  Government, Years, Profound

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• Im sometimes mistaken as the wife of the chairman. I just laugh it off.

  Patricia A. Woertz

  Laughing, Wife, Sometimes

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• The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now that the theories of Darwin having been fairly established, the Church says that the Mosaic account is true because it is in harmony with Darwin. Now, if it should turn out that Darwin was mistaken, what then?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheism, Church, Mosaics

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1846, Library of Alexandria

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• After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

  Mark Twain

  Sorry, Fall, Years

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Diaries of Adam and Eve”, p.27, Xist Publishing

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• I don't think I've ever been mistaken for anyone.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Thinking

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• If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally.

  Robert Herjavec

  Running, Needs, Schedules

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• One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license and disapproval, punishment, and threat of withdrawal of love are employed as weapons, all one bags is one's own unhappiness.

  Jo Coudert

  Hunting, Punishment, Judging

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.197, iUniverse

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• My mother became a believer, and then I became a believer. But when I was 43 years old, I began to think for myself, somehow, by fluke and by grace. And I thought, "Oh, my. I was so mistaken." The world isn't what I believed it to be. I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.

  Byron Katie

  Mother, Thinking, Years

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained it would not be more destructive to all just reasoning and inquiry. When men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.

  David Hume

  Passion, Men, Being Positive

  David Hume (2016). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book”, p.213, VM eBooks

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• People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant propensity toward the lesser sins, a pleasing readiness also to admit the possibility that on occasion they may be in the wrong--they may be mistaken.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Thinking, People, Soul

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• Conversation is the wall we build between ourselves and other people, too often with tired words like used and broken bottles which, catching the sunlight as they lie embedded in the wall, are mistaken for jewels.

  Janet Frame

  Wall, Lying, Tired

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Heart, Long, Understanding

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• If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are even more affected by what I have called the scientistic prejudice, and by specious claims of what science can achieve.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Philosophy, Psychology, Prejudice

  Friedrich August von Hayek's Prize Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1974.

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• The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Athlete, People, United States

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• We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Calling, World, Truth Is

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• Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

  Hildegard Knef

  Idols, Trying

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• Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.

  Myrtle Reed

  Kindness, Fighting, Years

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• The impulses of my heart are the voice of Nature, which is never mistaken. The institutions that stand in my way are man-made and are only arbitrary conventions to which I have never given my consent. In trampling these institutions underfoot, I shall have the double pleasure of satisfying my inclinations and of believing myself a hero

  Frederic Bastiat

  Believe, Hero, Heart

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• Scientists are complaining that the new dinosaur movie shows dinosaurs with lemurs, who didn't evolve for another million years. They're afraid the movie will give kids a mistaken impression. What about the fact that the dinosaurs are singing and dancing?

  Jay Leno

  Dance, Kids, Years

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• The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values.

  Carroll Quigley

  Ideas, Fundamentals, Kind

  "The State of Individuals". Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3, 1976.

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• Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Faith, Real, Superstitions

  Abraham Kuyper (1931). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.131, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not wrought a deep and solemn conviction in the public mind, that greater energy of government is essential to the welfare and prosperity of the community

  Alexander Hamilton

  America, Government, Community

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2014). “The Federalist Papers”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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