Wrong Quotes
11807 quotes by 6345 authors
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Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a…
— P D Ouspensky
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But the audience is right. They're always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no good, the date…
— William Friedkin
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One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean…
— Anton Chekhov
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But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be…
— Jonah Goldberg
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It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses…
— Benjamin Graham
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If you can get good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.
— Charlie Munger
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Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.
— Lawrence Block
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So much wrong could religion induce.
— Lucretius
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Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and all true culture…
— Joel Augustus Rogers
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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
— Robert Peel
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People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.
— Caroline B. Cooney
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I'm not a suicidal person at all, but on paper it seems that I am. I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many…
— Pete Doherty
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The problem is that most courses teach what is wrong.
— W. Edwards Deming
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All models are wrong; some models are useful.
— W. Edwards Deming
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That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be…
— Louise Slaughter
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The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the…
— Thomas Huxley
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I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway
— Leonora Carrington
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The whole point of science is that most of it is uncertain. That's why science is exciting--because we don't know. Science is all about things…
— Freeman Dyson
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The shocking truth about prosperity is that it is shockingly right instead of shockingly wrong for you to be prosperous. Please note that the word…
— Catherine Ponder
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There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing…
— Garet Garrett
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