Prove Me Wrong Quotes

• No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.476, Princeton University Press

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• Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

  Terry Pratchett

  Humor, Fabric, Goes On

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• If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mistake, Ignorance, Self

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.95, Penguin UK

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• A thousand things can prove me right and one can prove me wrong.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Thousand, Prove

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• Maybe people would be surprised to know that I listen to old Neil Diamond albums from time to time. The man rocks. I defy anyone to prove me wrong.

  Mark Hoppus

  Men, Rocks, People

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.

  Sophocles

  Argument, Blind, Call Me

  Sophocles (1951). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”

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• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it.

  Cliff Martinez

  Age, Able, Peppers

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• I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

  Roger Ebert

  Research, Found, Genre

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• During the war, there were people wishing me death, wishing my son death, wishing my wife death in very graphic ways. In the past, I would go overseas and I would say, "Israel is like my family: we disagree, but we're all brothers." I can't say that anymore, because life proves me wrong.

  Etgar Keret

  Brother, War, Son

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he can prove me wrong.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Problem, Assets

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• In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?” I stood and removed his shirt. “Then they’ll have a good story to tell.” “Good?” He adopted the pretense of being offended. “Prove me wrong.

  Maria V. Snyder

  War, What If, Stories

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Fire Study”, p.185, Harlequin

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• The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!

  John Bruton

  Long, Horizon, May

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• I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the clock (I actually saw this done, once, with a long pole pushing on the hour hand), any travesty was possible. I see nothing lately to prove me wrong.

  L. Neil Smith

  Country, Reality, Hands

  "The Pot and the Kettle". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 21, 2010.

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• I can see no hope at present of such a vaccine being produced... I have adopted a frankly defeatist attitude towards the problem of poliomyelitis and I hope that future developments will prove me wrong... No means of controlling poliomyelitis is at present visible.

  Frank Macfarlane Burnet

  Attitude, Mean, Vaccines

  "Proceedings of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians", vol. 4-6, "Some aspects of the epidemiology of poliomyelitis", 1949.

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• Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Kings, Stars, Flower

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

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