Wise men may well be mistaken in futures. [ Proverb ]

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for pebbles. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Charity may be mistaken, but shall never be rewarded. [ Proverb ]

Vanity and pride sustain so close an alliance as to be often mistaken for each other. [ Gladstone ]

If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken. [ Plutarch ]

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction. [ Colton ]

The fool maintains an error with the assurance of a man who can never be mistaken: the sensible man defends a truth with the circumspection of a man who may be mistaken. [ De Bruix ]

Extreme avarice is nearly always mistaken; there is no passion which is oftener further away from its mark, nor upon which the present has so much power to the prejudice of the future. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Nature builds upon a false bottom, seeks herself what she values in others, and is oftentimes deceived and disappointed. Grace reposes her whole hope and love in God, and is never mistaken, never deluded by false expectations. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience; which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective. [ Chesterfield ]