Mistaken Quotations | Page 2

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.

Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant; that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.

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.

Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.

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

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

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

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.

More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.

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