Mistaking Quotes

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

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.

I`m the one who signed it - but I told those people repeatedly that I wasn`t the actress. I was at this airport, you see, and they kept insisting that I was Sandra Bullock. It`s happened many times before - people mistaking me for the Hollywood star. But on this occasion they persisted. Finally, I agreed to give the autograph. But I made it clear that I was who I was - that I wasn`t Sandra Bullock.

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.

A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends