Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Humphreys

I like being mistaken for someone useful.

Scott Berryessa

Many mistakenly think that equates to a 6 percent salary increase.

Edward M. Lerner

Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.

Patrick Clawson

I think he is mistaken in his optimism,

Gilbert Gottfried

Unfortunately, I've never been mistaken as Johnny Depp.

Paul Valery

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

Sal Mineo

I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I have the courage to be mistaken.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it

Walter Benjamin

What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.

Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Alan Greenspan

Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

Alan Greenspan

History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.

David Myers

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

Cesar Pelli

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

Madeleine Albright

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

Arnold Bennett

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Aung San Suu Kyi

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.