[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Delirium tremens in a drunk alcoholic are an unmistakable symptom, but those intoxicated with theories are easily mistaken for geniuses. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There's also something that is often mistaken for enlightenment which is a kind of insanity. Often, people will have some kind of… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I don't know why, it's just what I feel inside, the thoughts that I sing about. It's just my truth. Sometimes my… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I admire ventriloquists, because I can't do that. I mean, I might get mistaken for a ventriloquist dummy every now and then,… — Brad Williams Copy Share Image
In living literature no person is a competent judge but of works written in his own language. I have expressed my opinion… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
“You are under not a single obligation to follow people who are always mistaken.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
[I have] my own view about [Bob] Dylan's Nobel prize. Which is, I'm firmly in the Nay camp. I do think the… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other… — Roald Amundsen Copy Share Image
Tyrion: My gentle sister seems to have mistaken me for Ned Stark. Bronn: I hear he was taller. Tyrion: Not after Joff… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects,… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Many Christians have the mistaken notion that eternal life begins when they die. But that is not biblically accurate. Eternal life begins… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image