On that trip it was my good fortune to be wrong; being…

“Once upon a time I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken.”

— David Gordon Burke

The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered by the…

— Richard M. Nixon

So much confusion about belief in God, morality, and science arises, not from what people say they believe, but rather from mistaken assumptions about…

— Francis J. Beckwith

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

— Carl Sandburg

The second part of the New Right's policy package has been the belief that free-market solutions are always best. It is this latter view…

— Paul Ormerod

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf…

— Richard Masur

He raked his fingers through his hair. "She doesn't need me." Ralston smirked. "You are laboring under that mistaken impression that it is their…

— Sarah MacLean

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…

— Leo Tolstoy

The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to…

— Sheila Rowbotham

The fact is that in too many parts of our country, we still have discrimination. And affirmative action is not just something that applies…

— John F. Kerry

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

— Albert Einstein

God puts you where God needs you. You are where you are supposed to be. The job you are doing may not be any…

— Lawrence Kushner

In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this…

— Jack Kornfield

A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik