Best Mistaken Qoutes
426 Mistaken quotes by 355 unique authors
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We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would…
— Chief Joseph
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Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without…
— Henry W. Kendall
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The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
— George McGovern
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There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
— George McGovern
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The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
— Marshall McLuhan
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
— Bill Nighy
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At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that…
— Richard M. Nixon
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist…
— Barack Obama
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
— Gary Oldman
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President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his…
— Rick Perry
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I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood.
— Daniel Radcliffe
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I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.
— Daniel Radcliffe
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
— Carl Sandburg
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You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is…
— Bernie Sanders
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.
— Stephen Sondheim
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Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts…
— Lysander Spooner
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Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.
— Donald Trump
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Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
— Paul Valery
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If I hammer my own thumb while doing some DIY, it's not nice, but it's not the end of the world. To care obsessively about…
— Julian Baggini
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I think that people who make films and think they're changing the world are sorely mistaken. If that really is your goal, there are far…
— Neill Blomkamp
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In one day, I got mistaken for three different actresses: Wendy Williams, Sherri Shepherd, and Star Jones.
— Niecy Nash
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In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change…
— Carl Sagan
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