Wrongly Quotes
93 quotes by 88 authors
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects…
— Teresa of Avila
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An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's own people. And…
— George F. Kennan
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Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses that…
— Teresa of Avila
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It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud.…
— Dan Barker
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It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; It appears to…
— Charles Darwin
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Science is agnostic when it comes to god; not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly; just agnostic.
— Eric Chaisson
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Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.
— Theo van Doesburg
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Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed…
— John Maynard Keynes
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I was really unfit last year, so I worked out for a long time, then spent time by myself in Oregon. For about two months…
— Robert Pattinson
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And the associated danger for the identity of Europe cannot be ignored out of a wrongly understood sense of respect... The Catholic side sees this…
— Georg Ganswein
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I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of…
— Henri Poincare
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But I think that Australians have a sort of independence, and I think that, rightly or wrongly, they tend to make their own decisions as…
— Joan Sutherland
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We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.
— Harold Leavitt
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Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
— Doris Lessing
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a…
— Ian Mckellen
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. . . yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou…
— William Shakespeare
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Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that morality derived from…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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