“I thought I was wrong once, but I found out later that I was mistaken. (Seldom Seen Smith)” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart. — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
If people think they can elicit from me whatever terms they want, they are mistaken. — Ivanka Trump Copy Share Image
When I lived in New York, never in my life had I been more mistaken for another than David Chang. — David Choe Copy Share Image
He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I lived in Japan in the 1980s, I once was mistaken for Paul Newman, and I didn't have much more hair… — Paul Saffo 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
No one has ever mistaken me for someone who should be giving fashion advice, but I will say I'm always impressed by… — Hugh Dancy Copy Share Image
And honestly, if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
Benjamin Franklin refused to have one of his children vaccinated against smallpox. The four-year-old boy died, and Franklin wrote later of how… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I say, of the Congress, then, this - that its aims are mistaken, that the spirit in which it proceeds towards their… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State . . . steps in,… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
I still believe that, in the long run, the aggregate of the decisions of individual businessmen, exercising individual judgment in a free… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
The Israelis are mistaken if they think we do not have an alternative to negotiations. By Allah I swear they are wrong.… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
One thing in the Middlewest: If you're in my business you're aware of the low opinion both coasts have of the midlands.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Off with you" is a phrase used by people who lack the curtesy to say something more polite, such as, "if there's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplicity of theories,… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads an attempt… — Edward Feser Copy Share Image
After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image