Being wrong Quote by Mark Kac

People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.

— Anonymous

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.

— Charles Caleb Colton

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

— Bruno Schulz

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

— Jonathan Swift

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

— Leigh Hunt

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

— William Strunk, Jr

Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means to be…

— Kathryn Schulz

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

— Orison Swett Marden

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

— Josh Billings

“Of all the things we are wrong about, this idea of error might well top the list: It is our meta-mistake: we are wrong…

— Kathryn Schulz

The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now…

— Lynne Truss