Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
When two people are really happy about one another, one can generally assume that they are mistaken. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love. — Hildegard Knef Copy Share Image
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I certainly think the antagonism came out of a mistaken notion amongst the Indian people that the Chinese aggressed on us, and… — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
Four years ago, the perpetrators believed they would bring America and the rest of the world to chaos, ... But they were mistaken. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
The second part of the New Right's policy package has been the belief that free-market solutions are always best. It is this… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous… — Lewis H. Lapham 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
Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance when in reality it is the opposite. When we can recognize all our good qualities as… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I should emphasize this, to keep well-meaning but misguided multiculturalists at bay: the theoretical entities in which these tribal people frankly believe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding.… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
It upset me that, five days after the hurricane hit down in New Orleans, the President's plan was for a day of… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Sundry manifestations of nature in men and women, are greatly perverted by existing social conventions upheld by both. There are feelings which,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
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