Being Wrong Quotes - Page 4

• Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong.

  Tim O'Reilly

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• I am interested in the possibility that we are going to be wrong in the same way that history has indicated that mankind always is. It seems as though the history of ideas is the history of being wrong. And to me, that is a kind of continuum. It's a continual path that shows we don't always know something, but we're always shifting to a path that makes us feel more comfortable in the moment, even if that shift is wrong, and a new shift is destined to happen again.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Path, Kind, Moments

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I think as a gay person, there was no way in my generation to not grow up with shame and a sense of being wrong. It was impossible to avoid. Externally, you might make choices that are very public and very open but internally that was a struggle.

  Ira Sachs

  Growing Up, Struggle, Gay

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

  Ira Glass

  Ideas, People, Stories

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• I'm no liar. I could have been wrong, but I ended up not being [wrong]. But I'm no liar.

  Stephen A. Smith

  Liars, Could Have Been, Has Beens

  Source: www.theroot.com

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• We are confronted with the possibility of a war of such destruction that the whole existence of our nation and of the whole world is at stake. And yet, people know it - people read it in the newspapers, people read that at the first attack, a hundred million Americans might be killed. And yet, they talk about it as if they were talking about something being wrong with the carburetor of their car, perhaps.

  Erich Fromm

  War, Talking, People

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Criticism ultimately at some degree is about the writer and not the subject. It's very easy if everybody else says, "He's a genius," to echo that, but then you're not functioning as a critic or as a writer in any meaningful way. You've got to take the risk of being wrong.

  Gary Giddins

  Meaningful, Risk, Criticism

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.

  Robert D. Arnott

  Successful, Investing, Absence

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• I was utterly free of speculative prejudices. The bear side doesn't appeal to me any more than the bull side, or vice versa. My one steadfast prejudice is against being wrong.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Vices, Prejudice, Bulls

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• There's no problem being wrong; it's a learning opportunity.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Opportunity, Problem, No Problem

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Ideas, Levels, Can Not

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• There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.

  Linus Torvalds

  Would Be, Levels, Stills

  "Online Extra: Linus Torvalds: SCO Is 'Just Too Wrong'". Interview with Jim Kerstetter, www.bloomberg.com. February 2, 2004.

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• I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Presidential, Care, Debate

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• Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way - and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.

  Danny Masterson

  Hard Times, Way, Levels

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• Let us pass to the despotic part of the soul, spirit. We must not eliminate it utterly from the youth nor yet allow  him to use it all the time. Let us train boys from earliest childhood to be patient when they suffer wrongs themselves, but, if they see another being wronged, to sally forth courageously and aid the sufferer in fitting measure.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Boys, Childhood, Soul

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• Whatever you believe, be open to being wrong

  Peter Rollins

  Believe

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• It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for an indefinite period of time? that the individual have a meaningful opportunity to challenge the legality of their detention and challenge whether they are being wrongfully detained.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Meaningful, Opportunity, Government

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• I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Mistake, Thinking, Law

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• 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 you chose to drink coffee from that boot. Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, "I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong..." you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot. No matter how stupid your idea, you're doomed to be right because it's yours.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Stupid, Coffee, Dirty

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• 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 up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?

  Paul Arden

  Past, People, Risk

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• Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Facts, Judgment

  Tony Blair's Labour Speech to the Conference in Brighton, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2004.

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• Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong

  Kathryn Schulz

  Our Love, Understood

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• Being wrong on facts, that's something you have a real responsibility to correct. But being wrong in the fun sports way is part of the interplay.

  Joe Posnanski

  Sports, Fun, Real

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• Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.

  Ken Robinson

  Mean, Creative, Ifs

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• To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Journey, Might, Way

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