Being Wrong Quotes

241 quotes by 173 authors

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in… — Dag Hammarskjold
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them. — Charles Caleb Colton
A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Sometimes buying early on the way down looks like being wrong, but it isn't. — Seth Klarman
We would like you to reach the place where you're not willing to listen to people criticize one another... where you take no satisfaction from… — Esther Hicks
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack… — Lewis Thomas
Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own… — Danny Masterson
Whatever you believe, be open to being wrong — Peter Rollins
Sometimes you face difficulties not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're doing something right. — Joel Osteen
The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing. — Seth Godin
Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong. — Ashly Lorenzana
Indecisiveness and procrastination are the chosen ways of life for most people. They follow the course of least resistance, which is to do nothing. This… — David Peoples
One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are? — A.J. Ayer
Let us pass to the despotic part of the soul, spirit. We must not eliminate it utterly from the youth nor yet allow Â him… — Saint John Chrysostom
In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the:Â process:Â… — Thomas Sowell
I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them. — Jimmy Hoffa
The people who are constantly striving to apply skepticism to everything in their lives, the ones who actually care enough about truth and [care to… — Matt Dillahunty
It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for an indefinite period… — Jeff Bingaman
After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong,… — J L Austin

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