Top 707 Mistaken Quotes & Sayings

What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.

When I was a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl.

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.

Habit: Often mistaken for love.

I'm often mistaken for a man.

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!

Concentration is sometimes mistaken for grumpiness.

As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people are mistaken about each others' experiences.

I don't think I've ever been mistaken for anyone.

I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood.

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.

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

Ubiquity must never be mistaken for biology.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

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.

Intuition is often mistaken, but not altogether.

Unfortunately, I've never been mistaken as Johnny Depp.

He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.

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

The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced... It’s one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It’s another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed or, worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress.

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

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself.

Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken...!

I have a lot of stories about being mistaken for a guy.

"I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every courthouse, and, may I say, of every legislative body in the United States. I should like to have every court begin, "I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that we may be mistaken."

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Humility with energy is often mistaken for pride.

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

I think that cynicism can often be mistaken for wisdom.

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.

I like being mistaken for someone useful.

Nobody's perfect. And if you think they are, you're sadly mistaken.

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

I'm a very private person, and perhaps this can be mistaken for aloofness.

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

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.

I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.

I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.

Clearly, a dog is not a child and can never be mistaken as one.

I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it

The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of you once learned as gospel from your mistaken professors of yore. Your mistaken professors were too much influenced by "rational man" models of human behavior from economics and too little by "foolish man" models from psychology and real-world experience.

Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.

Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

Bravery and Stupidity can often be mistaken for the other.

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.

I should emphasize this, to keep well-meaning but misguided multiculturalists at bay: the theoretical entities in which these tribal people frankly believe — the gods and other spirits — don't exist. These people are mistaken, and you know it as well as I do. It is possible for highly intelligent people to have a very useful but mistaken theory, and we don't have to pretend otherwise in order to show respect for these people and their ways.

Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.