Incorrect Quotes
147 quotes by 143 authors
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It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.
— Stanley Fish
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Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in his or her…
— Peter Singer
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Many people assume that they can probably find many ways to save time. This is an incorrect assumption for it is only when you focus…
— Douglas Merrill
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Yet know this: there is no such thing as an incorrect path - for on this journey you cannot "not get" where you are going.…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear…
— Viktor Schauberger
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I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false;…
— Mary Hart
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I can generate suctional forces, which act indirectly and are entirely undetectable. No current of air can be noticed; only an almost imperceptible cooling, as…
— Viktor Schauberger
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As confusing, unpredictable and stressful as life may be, always remember, it is never incorrect to be kind. When lost, just do nice things.
— Sean Plott
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If you give a man the correct information for seven years, he may believe the incorrect information on the first day of the eighth year…
— PSY
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It would be incorrect to claim that our paper was an endorsement of CO2-induced global warming.
— Craig D. Idso
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How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed makes you kissable, like feeling…
— Daniel Handler
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Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time…
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.
— Brian Tracy
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We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.
— Henning Mankell
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Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
— Stacy Schiff
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If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we…
— Francis Crick
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Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have…
— Marvin Harris
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What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be…
— Thomas Nagel
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When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock. To…
— Steven Pinker
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Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine.
— James Balog
Who Wrote These Incorrect Quotes
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