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Delirium tremens in a drunk alcoholic are an unmistakable symptom, but those intoxicated with theories are easily mistaken for geniuses. — Samael Aun Weor

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

Fashion, ah yes. A fool's game, if I am not mistaken. — K.F. Breene

Dr. Breed was mistaken about at least one thing: there was such a thing as ice-nice. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

For whoever believes that great advancement and new benefits make men forget old injuries is mistaken. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Concentration is sometimes mistaken for grumpiness. — Michael Atherton

What happened tonight won't change a thing."
"You're mistaken, Lila. Everything started changing the moment we met. — Stephanie Witter

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations. — Niccolo Machiavelli

One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids. — Bill Crawford

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse. — Francois Truffaut

I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night. — Glenn Close

You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people. — Clive Barker

Those who think that they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge. - Margaret Thatcher — Donald Rumsfeld

Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart. — Napoleon Hill

Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that is often mistaken for the scent of evil. — F Scott Fitzgerald

But pessimism and reality are usually mistaken for each other — Anna Banks

Everybody's got whatever problems they have. I refuse to let somebody's mistaken beliefs affect my life. — O.J. Simpson

You are mistaken if you consider this a criticism, either of my father or the houses. — D.J. Waldie

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling. — Otto Von Bismarck

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken. — Kenneth Burke

It is improbable that you are not mistaken, but why should it be the truth? — Friedrich Nietzsche

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men. — Desiderius Erasmus

When we allow our children to become independent decision makers we give them a false idea of liberty and a mistaken notion about freedom. — Tedd Tripp

Inertia is often mistaken for patience. — Marty Rubin

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom. — Charles Caleb Colton

But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader. — Adolf Hitler

I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker — Adolf Hitler

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession. — George Bernard Shaw

'Up in the Air' is not a political movie. It won't be mistaken for either a Michael Moore or Any Rand polemic on capitalism. — Frank Rich

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy. — Robin Hobb

You'd better be careful. You might be mistaken for someone who's worried about me. — Susan Ee

A source told me that you don't do girlfriends."
"Your source was mistaken. I do my girlfriend quite frequently. — Elena Kincaid

Once upon a time I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken. — David Gordon Burke

I yawned so widely a bear could've mistaken my mouth for a cave and crawled in to hibernate for the winter. — Alyxandra Harvey

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken. — Penelope Fitzgerald

Habit: Often mistaken for love. — Marlene Dietrich

I'm often mistaken for a man. — Erin O'Connor

Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else's blood. This is why our thinkers feel free to say just about anything. — Albert Camus

Curiosity is often mistaken as Love,
Since they both have the common elements of
Interest and Passion — Drishti Bablani

To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is neutral if you go under spell in your first love; but if it happens for a second time you have mistaken love with something else. — M.F. Moonzajer

The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken. — Roald Amundsen

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken. — Lawrence Block

People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war. — Leslie Groves

Those who say 'I am ready to learn', or 'I am not ready to learn' are as often mistaken as they are correct in their surmise. — Idries Shah

I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings. — Pearl Cleage

You are mistaken; he is not a gentleman but a sir. Just a sir. For a gentleman is grander and a rare acquaintance. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Tyrion: My gentle sister seems to have mistaken me for Ned Stark.
Bronn: I hear he was taller.
Tyrion: Not after Joff took off his head. — George R R Martin

I think that you have mistaken pride for faith, as so many do. — Geraldine Harris

His only comfort was he couldn't be mistaken for a dwarf, as he had no beard. — J.R.R. Tolkien

If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken. — Mahatma Gandhi

A fundie claimed "God invented science". All of science is tentative and approximate, also sometimes mistaken. Is that the best God can do? — Graham Kendall

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart. — Patricia Highsmith

I'm done talking about your horse, Eli.' 'If you think it will not come up again, you are mistaken. — Patrick DeWitt

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage? — Anthony Marra

Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation. — Edward M. Lerner

Kids grow up in troubled homes thinking that they have the power to change their parents. Over time, they realize that they are mistaken. — James P. Krehbiel

This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love. — Soren Kierkegaard

I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes. — E. J. Hughes

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 not let us alone. — Chief Joseph

Thank God I am 20 feet tall, so my crying is never mistaken as weak. It can be mistaken as weird, but not weak. — Wendy Williams

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. — Thomas Browne

I'm mistaken ... .
for thinking you were someone with a heart worth breaking. — Coco J. Ginger

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth. — Gerald Massey

The presence of a path doesn't necessarily mean the existence of a destination. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken. — William Penn

It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful. — Joseph Joubert

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken. — Paul Valery

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God. — Thomas Sowell

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. — Oliver Cromwell

I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women. — John Bright

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life. — Arthur Schopenhauer

When we scream and shout inside our heart, deep silence prevails outside and often we are mistaken to be snobbish. — Upasana Banerjee

Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself. — Dashiell Hammett

You've mistaken the stars reflected on the surface of the lake at night for the heavens. — Andrzej Sapkowski

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero. — Joe Abercrombie

When we access ourselves wrongly, we are mistaken about our abilities — Sunday Adelaja

Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day. — Arthur Miller

Skepticism is forever whispering in your ears. You're very new at this. You may be mistaken. You've been wrong before. — D. J. Grothe

He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable. — Francesco Guicciardini

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 met. — William, Saroyan

My whole life, people have told me that I have a staring problem. They're hilariously mistaken: I'm very good at staring. — S. Hart

The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama. — Dannie Abse

I have the courage to be mistaken. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large. — Juvenal

Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness. — Richard Davenport-Hines

Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance. — Richard Dawkins

Unless I am very much mistaken ... I AM very much mistaken ... ! — Murray Walker

In one day, I got mistaken for three different actresses: Wendy Williams, Sherri Shepherd, and Star Jones. — Niecy Nash

We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures. — Karl Popper

Four years ago, the perpetrators believed they would bring America and the rest of the world to chaos, ... But they were mistaken. — Vladimir Putin

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace. — Thomas R. Kelly

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity. — George McGovern

God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It was just the human story again, flowing through me as it did through everyone else, and I'd mistaken it as my own.
p 284 — Frank Huyler

Hold your beliefs lightly.' Certainty is not necessarily a friend of sanity, although it is often mistaken for it. — The School Of Life

You have friends. You have a clique. You walk down the hall like you own the place."

"You seem to have mistaken me for the movie Mean Girls — Rainbow Rowell

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics. — John Mason Brown