Wrong Quotes

“People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right—especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong.”
― Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional? And Other Essays

“There is a curious phenomenon in Western intellectual life, namely that of being right at the wrong time. To be right at the wrong time is far, far worse than having been wrong for decades on end. In the estimation of many intellectuals, to be right at the wrong time is the worst possible social faux pas; like telling an off-colour joke at the throning of a bishop. In short, it is in unforgivable bad taste.

There was never a good time, for example, to be anti-communist. Those who early warned of the dangers of bolshevism were regarded as lacking in compassion for the suffering of the masses under tsarism, as well as lacking the necessary imagination to “build” a better world. Then came the phase of denial of the crimes of communism, when to base one’s anti-communism on such phenomena as organised famine and the murder of millions was regarded as the malicious acceptance of ideologically-inspired lies and calumnies. When finally the catastrophic failure of communism could no longer be disguised, and all the supposed lies were acknowledged to have been true, to be anti-communist became tasteless in a different way: it was harping on pointlessly about what everyone had always known to be the case. The only good anti-communist was a mute anti-communist.”
― Theodore Dalrymple

“One wrong will put all wrong.”
― Brothers Grimm

“It’s easier to forgive someone who was wrong than to forgive someone who was right.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“It is so easy to be wrong—and to persist in being wrong—when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.”
― Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

“Don't do anything to anyone,
that you can't see being done to yourself”
― Vineet Goel

“Sometimes it’s easier to admit that something is wrong, than to convince them that nothing is wrong.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“Atheism has always been understood wrongly as much as they understood God itself”
― Dido Stargaze

“There is no correlation between the degree to which you are confident that you are right and the chances of you not being wrong.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Just because others are wrong, doesn’t make you right.”
― J.S. Felts, Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire

“Entertaining wrong crowd or being in the presents of people who don't want you or like you. Brings lot of trouble and problems. Everything you do will be offensive, insensitive, bad, wrong, inappropriate and questionable to them.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Always admit when wrong; remain silent when right.


RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 1994”
― RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 1994

“There’s the old saying, ‘if you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen.’ That implies that something’s cooking and I’m probably not the one cooking it, which means that I’m yet in another place that I shouldn’t be in. Any maybe that’s why it’s hot.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The foolishness of continuing down a wrong path after you’ve already discovered it’s negative ways is called pride. Humility is doing what’s right when it’s hard and turning around when it’s wrong.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“NOTHING IS WRONG UNLESS YOU REMEMBER IT”
― J. Ruby

“My whole damn life was wrong.”
― Lily Seabrooke, Different Worlds

“Cause baby, there's nothing I like being called more than a fool. It's a word that rots [...] So that when later, a body gets proved wrong, and has to come back around and eat their words--it's a sick, vile ol' word to choke down.”
― Allie Ray, Inheritance

“To do ‘a little evil’ in order to achieve ‘a greater good’ is to errantly assume that evil is ever little.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s not about declaring all things ‘right’ so that we can finally relieve ourselves of the guilt of having done so much that is wrong.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“This thing called ‘right’ is an ingenious compilation of the values that keep us safe from others, but mostly safe from ourselves…for on our own we do not seem to do either very well.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don’t pretend to be right, because if you are right there’s no need to pretend.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is perhaps symbolic of power, Anand mused, that nervousness trails confidence like a shadow. You do something that you think is right, but the very next moment you are no longer sure. A host of critics assail you at once.
They believe that you can't do anything right anyway, whatever you do. You end up with more doubts. Until you lose your sensitivity and persuade yourself that you're always right, whatever you do.”
― P.V. Narasimha Rao

“Our misguided entrepreneur has a few more conversations like this, becomes increasingly convinced he’s right, quits his job, and sinks his savings into the app. Then he wonders why nobody (even his mom) buys the app, especially since he had been so rigorous.

Doing it wrong is worse than doing nothing at all. When you know you’re clueless, you tend to be careful. But collecting a fistful of false positives is like convincing a drunk he’s sober: not an improvement.”
― Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

“I’m scared shitless.” Knowing and accepting that a few things were bound to go wrong.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, The Comeback Quotient: A Get-Real Guide to Building Mental Fitness in Sport and Life

“Instead of seeing what was wrong with my backhand, I just started observing, and improvement seemed to happen on its own.”
― Timothy Gallwey

“I told them that there was no right and wrong to think about; they were only to observe their own footwork with full attention.”
― Timothy Gallwey

“The first step is to forget all the ideas you may have in your mind about what is wrong with it as it is. Erase all your previous ideas and begin serving without exercising any conscious control over your stroke. Observe your serve freshly, as it is now.”
― Timothy Gallwey

“So everything I do is to minimize the risk of that happening. That helps me fight the mental urge to doubt myself, to create problems that haven’t happened and overthink everything that could go wrong.”
― Tim S. Grover, Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness

“The gap between what’s right and what’s convenient only gets wider the more that we attempt to cross it. And that’s why the only bridges are the ones at the bottom.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In our world today ‘user-error’ seems to turn into ‘user-habit’ with the user in the habit of denying both.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough