Wrong Assumption Quotes

I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' I said, 'I am.'

I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don't know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.

We did not cover ourselves with glory. We predicted the day before the war broke out that it was not going to break out.

I often meet people who say, 'I thought you were dead.'

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

I don't mean he missed him, but he just didn't get him when he put the tag on him.

The public is a bad guesser.

The starting-point in the brochure is not right. To my idea you are mistaken in your judgment regarding the analogy of the West-European revolution with the Russian one, regarding the conditions of the West-European revolution, that is to say the class-relations- and this leads you to mistake the cause, from which this Left Wing, the opposition, originates …. Therefore the brochure SEEMS to be right, as long as your starting-point is assumed. If, however (as it should be), your starting point is rejected, the entire brochure is wrong. As all your mistaken, and partly mistaken, judgments converge …

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

If you hear the question wrong, you will answer wrong.

Amusingly, Christopher Columbus totally bungled ... by relying on subsequent less-accurate calculations and confusing Arabic miles with Italian miles, concluding that he needed to sail only 3,700 km to reach the Orient when the true value was 19,600 km. He clearly wouldn’t have gotten his trip funded if he’d done his math right, and he clearly wouldn’t have survived if America hadn’t existed, so sometimes being lucky is more important than being right.

I thought I was signed up to be on 'Heroes.' It turns out I signed up to be on 'Survivor.'

A misconception that exists in the eyes of the general reading population is that authors make truckloads of money.

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept.

I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.

Like a real dumb idiot, I believed that to avoid a grenade that drops in the water, you could just jump in the water, and you'd be fine.

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Women think that smaller brows will open up their eyes, but that's wrong and it affects your entire face.

It's weird how you can learn something incorrectly.

When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.

All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.

Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harassing that woman.