Being Wrong Quotes

241 quotes by 173 authors

(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied… — Edward de Bono
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a… — Chuck Palahniuk
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;… — Wystan Hugh Auden
We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that… — Alison Croggon
When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion. — Ian Mcewan
The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't… — Seth Godin
You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more… — Norton Juster
Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag… — Haruki Murakami
Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end… — Paul Arden
Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Even that would be right, because… — Chuck Palahniuk
Being wrong about important things is exhausting. — John Irving
It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majorityâ€™s falsehood as truth, could… — Thomas Szasz
Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong… — Seth Godin
We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong. — Isaac Asimov
Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and taking this in… — Lewis Thomas
The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. — Agnes de Mille
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

Who Wrote These Being Wrong Quotes

173 authors contributed a total of 241 Being Wrong Quotes, led by these top contributors: