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You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the grounds that you… — Ken Robinson
Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being… — Humphry Davy
As a net is made up of a series of ties, so everything in this world is connected by a series of ties. If anyone… — Gautama Buddha
It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think that they know, but are mistaken,… — Margaret Thatcher
The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the… — Jan Tschichold
The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken. — Kenneth Burke
For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some… — Anthony Braxton
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in… — Joseph Glanvill
I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly mistaken, — Townes Van Zandt
There are so many images out there, so many clothes out there, and the only ones that look interesting to me are the ones that… — Isaac Mizrahi
If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however,… — Franz Grillparzer
I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the… — Ben Bernanke
We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids. — Bill Crawford
Notoriety is often mistaken for fame. — Aesop
Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If… — Arcangela Tarabotti
I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it… — Neil Postman
Many, perhaps most, people who lose their jobs are mistaken about the reason for which they lost their jobs. Some will say that they're failures,… — Harvey Mackay
Jesus came to reveal God to us. He is the defining word on God—on what the heart of God is truly like, on what God… — John Eldred
The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas and… — Janet Burroway
I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels… — Nicolas Malebranche
They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth. — Gerald Massey
Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity. — Alice Paul
An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve… — Frances Wright
Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has… — William Saroyan

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