Mistaken Beliefs Quotes

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that are not so

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts of opinions in politics and in religion; yet they could not therefore have all been in the right; although they could give no stronger evidence that they believed themselves in the right.

Nobody's perfect. And if you think they are, you're sadly mistaken.

When foreign affairs were ruled by autocracies or oligarchies the danger of war was in sinister purpose. When foreign affairs are ruled by democracies the danger of war will be in mistaken beliefs.

If you think you're going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a cloud and learn stuff and you know really get to grips with knowledge and understanding and so you won't bother now, I think it's a terrible, a terrible mistake.

Everybody's got whatever problems they have. I refuse to let somebody's mistaken beliefs affect my life.

Being wrong about important things is exhausting.

I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true

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

He's wrong. That's why his films look so terrible.

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and even wrongheaded. She opened up a lot of space that me and a million other women rushed into.