#mistaken

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#applications #costs #flaw #fraud #fundamentally

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken. ↗

— George Berkeley

#divested #easily #how #i #i can

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#been #before #evening #flattered #following

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#christ #i #may #mistaken #possible

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves. ↗

— Junius

#holy #mistaken #others #ourselves #persuading

There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation. ↗

— Charles Hermite

#am #both #creation #divine #entire

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one. ↗

— Judith Martin

#mistakenly #new #new technology #old #old one

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war. ↗

— George McGovern

#how #matter #mistaken #rally #round

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#lack #mistaken #often #pep

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. ↗