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Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity. — Jonathan Franzen

You have but mistook me all the while ... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king? — William Shakespeare

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The master is bringing Darwin through to examine lower life-forms, Rhoda. Straighten your spine or you'll be mistook for a mollusk. — Gregory Maguire

The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. — Paul Krugman

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool. — Criss Jami

Too often, especially in democratic societies, people mistook the mechanisms of power for power itself. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. — Jonathan Swift

I mistook my free fall for freedom. — Sacha Zimmerman Scoblic

We had not liked each other much at first. He mistook my shyness for arrogance and I failed to see that his arrogance masked his shyness. — Michael Nava

We lived in Indian summer and mistook it for spring. — Bruce Catton

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom. — Toni Morrison

Robert Whitmore
died of apoplexy
when a stranger from Georgia
mistook him
for a former Macon waiter. — Frank Marshall Davis

She'd always been blunt, to the point that people sometimes mistook her for cold. In truth, she was one of the warmest people he had ever met. — Marcus Sakey

[Companies] mistook a lack of competition for success. — Frances McCall Rosenbluth

I mistook stars reflected in a pond at night for those in the sky. — Andrzej Sapkowski

However, little by little, I am coming to the view that what I mistook for humility was, in fact, an accurate evaluation of your worth. — Trevanian

Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out ... — Ben Marcus

Just like you mistook lust for love, you have mistaken with being alone for loneliness. So I'm fine. Thanks for asking. — Pleasefindthis

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence. — Michael Lewis

The man mistook American patience and attempts at diplomacy for weakness. — Joseph Badal

I'm sorry we mistook emotional manipulation for love. — M..

He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women. — Ouida

I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes. — Thom Yorke

My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak. — Robin Hobb

What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity. — Louise Penny

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way. — Simone De Beauvoir

...by saying that the former was only concerned with quality, the latter only with quantity, mistook cause for effect. — Immanuel Kant

Perhaps he was merely being friendly. Perhaps he saw the look on my face and mistook it for something else. Really what I wanted was the cigarette. — Margaret Atwood

I mistook you for a metaphor. — Rachel Hartman