A Quote by Leo Tolstoy

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

Leo Tolstoy

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Leo Tolstoy
Russian - Writer
September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910

What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken; and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken.

Saint Augustine

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

Pearl Cleage

There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.

Pope John Paul II

There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.

M. F. K. Fisher

I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.

Rocco Buttiglione

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.

Robert Breault

There's an American idea that you want to look as young as you can for as long as you can. If you can be mistaken for a teenager from behind into your 50s, then you've won; you've succeeded.

Pamela Druckerman

It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

Leo Tolstoy

To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!

Blaise Pascal

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

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

Karl Popper

Capital does not 'beget profit' as Marx thought. The capital goods as such are dead things that in themselves do not accomplish anything. If they are utilized according to a good idea, profit results. If they are utilized according to a mistaken idea, no profit or losses result. It is the entrepreneurial decision that creates either profit or loss.

Ludwig von Mises

I myself, in my heart, say that people should have all the children they want. But it's a mistaken idea, like many of our ideas that go back thousands of years, and it must be rooted out.