Mistaken – Quotes

To all, I would

To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love… Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The ‘survival of the fittest’ is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State . . . steps in, and helps him catch and fleece his victims. The old plea of despotism, that liberty is unsafe, reappears now in the mistaken notion that competition is hostile to labor. Ezra Heywood

There’s this kind of

There’s this kind of incredibly mistaken idea that because it’s so much cheaper to roll the camera than it used to be and it’s so much easier to accumulate a ton of footage, that then you can just go shoot a ton of footage and the editor will make sense out of it. But if … Read more

I don’t know why,

I don’t know why, it’s just what I feel inside, the thoughts that I sing about. It’s just my truth. Sometimes my emotions can be mistaken for messages. Erykah Badu

Probably people always feel

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate. Emily Greene Balch

On a motif such

On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is too meagre, too thin, too puny for such an end. Reti’s explanations, wherever they are concerned with an analysis which covers a few moves, are correct and praiseworthy. But when he abandons the … Read more

Do not flinch from

Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts. Eliezer Yudkowsky

Dawkins’s problem is that

Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads an attempt at the latter as if it were the former. That is not to say that Aquinas might not be mistaken at some point in the argument – though obviously I don’t think he … Read more

The church itself has

The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev’ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and … Read more

Religious persecution may shield

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. Edmund Burke