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"To be positive To be mistaken at the top of one's voice." »Ambrose Bierce
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"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." »Oliver Cromwell
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"Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity." »Barbara Stanwyck
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"Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity." »George Stanley McGovern
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"The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon.
Let others say his heart is big,
I think it stupid of the Pig." »Ogden Nash, "The Pig"
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"After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her." »Mark Twain
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"We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures." »Karl Popper
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"I chose and my word was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken — the choosing was not. Just keep moving on..." »Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Act 2
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"The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"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 is another kind of religion altogether." »Neil Postman
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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 books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents." »Arthuer Schopenhauer
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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 books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents." »Arthur Schopenhauer
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"It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are." »Penelope Fitzgerald
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"Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind." »Alfred North Whitehead
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"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain." »Bartholomew
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"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken." »Jane Austen, Emma
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"At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world." »Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal
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"The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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