Meanings of mistake mere in English

But the real truth is that their projects miscarry because they mistake mere activity for energy.

You are misled, and mistake mere fact for the fiction of history, which is truth-andinstructs-andis beautiful.

It would indeed be a clouded mind which could mistake mere disordered fancies for willful offenses against the truth.

Do not mistake mere idle fancies for the tremendous miracle-working force of Will nerved to creation by a conviction of Necessity.

And for years I've been mistaking mere vulgar female vanity for maternal solicitude.

And I say this, because you are in danger of mistaking mere knowledge for improvement.

She had thought of this life of hers always in terms of uneventfulness, mistaking mere incident for emotional experience.

"Young man," he said, "you must not mistake mere recklessness for valor."

(Minds not keenly analytical are always apt to mistake mere correlation of appearance with causative sequence.

Hence arose an obvious, and perhaps an unavoidable error; for these critics being men of shallow capacities, very easily mistook mere form for substance.