Top 91 Mistaking Quotes
#1. I had the face of pleasure, and yet I had no knowledge of pleasure. There was no mistaking that face.
Marguerite Duras
#2. It makes me wonder how many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?
Donald Miller
#3. There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame that heats our soul, energizes our spirit, and supplies passion to our lives.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#4. Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.
James F. Cooper
#5. I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other.
Harlan Ellison
#6. It's about time we stop mistaking self-knowledge for self-absorption - and realize that nobody has a monopoly on selfishness.
Meghan Daum
#7. There is another way of disqualifying the metaphysicians ... Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods?
Jack London
#8. She couldn't have him, and there was no mistaking it. She could never be his wife. She could not steal herself back from Randa only to give herself away again- belong to another person, be answerable to another person, build her very being around another person. No matter how she loved him.
Kristin Cashore
#9. I'm happy, Ahren. I'm a princess. I have everything."
"I think you're mistaking comfort for joy.
Kiera Cass
#10. There was no mistaking what the feeling of fullness in his heart meant. They were mates and were bound together. Forever. Wharick's green eyes closed for a moment as he absorbed the feeling of completeness their bond provided his spirit.
Madison Thorne Grey
#11. my father...there was never any mistaking his love for me. When I walked into the room, his eyes lit up and he wrapped me in his arms as if it was Christmas morning and I was the best gift imaginable.
Eric Ripert
#12. Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.
Irwin Redlener
#13. Who had taken a violent fancy to me, mistaking me for something vastly better than I was.
Anne Bronte
#14. head rested on her pulled up knees and dark hair hid her face, but there was no mistaking that despair rocked her small frame.
Karen Lenfestey
#15. That's all he was doing. Mistaking that intensity for something that didn't translate outside of the bedroom. That couldn't, probably, because something that intense would burn itself out in a flash if you opened it up to the world, wouldn't it?
Lisa Henry
#16. Our focus is our customers' success. At the end of the day, if your customers are successful, they will also be satisfied. But satisfaction is not success. In today's business environment, and certainly in tomorrow's, mistaking one for the other can be fatal.
Rob Bernshteyn
#17. There was no mistaking her daughter's handwriting. And the words... "If you're reading this, I'm already dead.
Elizabeth Heiter
#18. You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for moral superiority.
Nenia Campbell
#19. There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, the flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.
Malcolm Lowry
#20. There was no mistaking; he was a King on his throne... and I crowned him.
Jessica M. Collette
#21. I have a big job on my hands now, there is no mistaking that, but I feel as though I have calmness within myself.
(on being Manchester City manager)
Stuart Pearce
#22. History is us squinting into the past, mistaking millions of tiny vibrations in all directions for unified, unidirectional movements by entire civilizations.
Joseph Fink
#23. Don't frustrate yourself by mistaking "associates" for "friends"! Everyone doesn't have your back. Identify the people in your life & don't expect them to be, who they're not!
Jackie Hill
#24. There hadn't been one specific moment. It was like gradualy waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It's a slow process, but when you're awake, there's no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that it had been love.
Jenny Han
#25. Genevieve's stomach gave an unpleasant flop. There was no mistaking that feeling. She was jealous. Damn it.
Rosalie Lario
#26. It's difficult sometimes to tell the difference between what is impossible and what is possible (but requires a big reach). At a creative company, mistaking one for the other can be fatal - but getting it right always elevates.
Ed Catmull
#27. We can also see from the turkey story the mother of all harmful mistakes: mistaking absence of evidence (of harm) for evidence of absence,
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#28. You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.
Johnny Vegas
#29. Mistaking Lucius's silence for acquiescence, he pointed a hard finger at his eyes. Maybe nobody don't need this truth you're lookin for, ever think about that?
Peter Matthiessen
#30. If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.
Thandie Newton
#31. It's a funny thing sensing someone else's sex drive. After a while, you get to mistaking it for your own.
Haruki Murakami
#32. Mistaking obsession for love is one of the greatest mistakes you'll every make
Karina Halle
#33. Once again I distrusted happiness, mistaking it for complacency.
Rob Spillman
#34. Being cynical isn't necessarily being negative or bitter. It's a person who is wary of mistaking love for something that it's not and getting their heart broken.
Charlyne Yi
#35. I think we're all guilty of mistaking the actors we've seen over and over again - we think we know them.
Charlie Day
#36. There's no mistaking what kind of potion I need. Caffeine - for alertness and rejuvenation.
Amy Alward
#37. Our taste must always be, more or less, the victim of our limitations, but we should beware of glorying in it, and, above all, we should beware of mistaking the aversions of timidity and sensibility for critical judgments.
Walter Raleigh
#38. The besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
John Stuart Mill
#39. How can you be so sure about me?" He leveled his spellbinding gaze on my face. "When you've been in the dark as long as I have, moy angel, there is no mistaking the light.
Kresley Cole
#40. You are mistaking me for someone with choices, Froi. I don't have choices.
Melina Marchetta
#41. We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.
Robert Breault
#42. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#43. Even though I like kissing... No matter how much I think I want him to stop, that I hate him and want him to let go, in that moment, I couldn't care less. That's why... I'm... wondering whether I'm mistaking that for love.
Natsuki Kizu
#44. The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish by that test the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither mistaking it for, nor trying to turn it into, something that is alien to its nature.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#45. These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.
Swami Vivekananda
#46. I don't believe in objectivity. I observe the observer's paradox every moment I'm filming. Your presence is changing everything; there's no mistaking it. And you have a responsibility.
Lucy Walker
#47. Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.
Lynda Obst
#48. Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
#49. There seems to be a kind of order in the universe ... in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.
Katherine Anne Porter
#50. If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.
Eckhart Tolle
#51. With love there is no painful reaction; love only brings a reaction of bliss; if it does not, it is not love; it is mistaking something else for love." - Swami Vivekananda
Bhanu Prakash Singh
#52. Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.
Wilhelm Reich
#53. You could start a fire with the heat between you two."
"You're mistaking bitter animosity for heartfelt affection.
Michelle Hodkin
#54. Real disciples absorb the fiery darts of the adversary by holding aloft the quenching shield of faith with one hand, while holding to the iron rod with the other (see Eph. 6:16; 1 Ne. 15:24; D&C 27:17). There should be no mistaking; it will take both hands!
Neal A. Maxwell
#55. We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.
David Platt
#56. Not being locked into one set of feelings, which you run the risk of mistaking for the truth, you have greater and more intense access to all feeling states, including those you would never choose to act out.
Mary Gaitskill
#57. If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
Markus Zusak
#58. There was no mistaking it, Albert had stuck out his tongue at her. She was pregnant. Jean
Harper Lee
#60. There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#61. There's no mistaking the fact that some of the best longform fiction out there now is in American television. 'The Wire' and 'Deadwood' and 'The Sopranos.'
Kevin Barry
#62. What was that?" he whispered, eyes narrowed. There was no mistaking the amusement in the tilt to his lips, though. "Very bad kitty ...
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#63. We need to make a very clear distinction between what is in our ego's self-interest and what is in our ultimate interest; it is from mistaking one for the other that all our suffering comes.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#64. I remember mistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont, and I had to beg her pardon.
Richard Brautigan
#65. The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.
Robert M. Pirsig
#66. Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin', Help him with his load, And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road.
Bob Dylan
#67. The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery
#68. It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor,
a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not readily annoyed, which is compatible with great selfishness.
Richard Whately
#69. There's a fine line between helping others and being a people pleaser, and mistaking one for the other can be hugely detrimental. When we put others' needs before our own, we deplete our energy, which can lead to depression, physical illness, and overwhelm.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#70. While stores continue to be a very important part of our business, there is no mistaking the fact that the customers' shopping preference, measured by both traffic and sales, continues to move to a virtual experience.
Richard Hayne
#71. Inertia is so easy - don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.
Justina Chen Headley
#72. Don't ask me why I obsessively look to rock 'n' roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it's just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since.
Lester Bangs
#73. And the hair on his arms stood erect and some primal siren sounded in his brain, but mistaking terror for adrenaline, he walked down into the darkness because he'd never felt more alive.
Blake Crouch
#74. It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace. Many, because they have been troubled in conscience for their sins, think well of their case, miserably mistaking conviction for conversion.
Joseph Alleine
#75. And here, in truth, was the inexperienced youth's great danger - the danger of mistaking in others a mere profession of religion for heart piety, and of being himself led to rest satisfied with a form of godliness.
George E. Sargent
#76. Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
Daniel Dennett
#77. Saints, Kaz, you actually look happy."
"Don't be ridiculous," he snapped. But there was no mistaking it. Kaz Brekker was grinning like an idiot.
Leigh Bardugo
#78. Finley?" His voice was weak, but there was no mistaking it.
"Griffin?" Joy skipped in her chest. "You're awake."
His forehead wrinkled, and his eyelashes fluttered. "Are you crying? My face is wet."
"Of course not," she lied. "Sam was here before me. It must have been him.
Kady Cross
#79. Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.
Austin O'Malley
#80. It is a very recent disease to mistake the unobserved for the nonexistent; but some are plagued with the worse disease of mistaking the unobserved for the unobservable.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#81. There's a vulnerability about Rose, even a sweetness in her eyes, but there's no mistaking her priorities. Smart, tough, determined, she is essential, but rarely the dog that people melt over or want to take home. Yet she's a great dog.
Jon Katz
#82. There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
L. Sprague De Camp
#83. There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Christopher Morley
#84. The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.
Paul Valery
#85. But I could be mistaking our friendship for something more, because I want to mistake it for something more.
Stephanie Perkins
#86. I have learned, too, the danger that comes in mistaking the wildness we give a thing for the wildness that animates
Helen Macdonald
#87. There is one world in which I believe the habit of mistaking luck for skill is most prevalent - and most conspicuous - and that is the world of markets. By
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#88. He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.
E. M. Forster
#89. Every man who knows anything of languages, knows that it is impossible to translate from one language into another, not only without losing a great part of the original, but frequently of mistaking the sense.
Thomas Paine
#90. You must be mistaking me for someone else with silver hair.
Lisa Mantchev
#91. How could you teach someone to survive? You pointed them in the right direction and hoped they'd swim, not sink. Waving, not drowning. There are more important things in life than individual happiness. It was an easy trap to fall into, mistaking a lack of self-direction for an expression of love.
Lesley Lokko
