Always Wrong Quotes

• They don’t think “I care,” “I hurt,” or “I have feelings.” It just seems like I’m always “wrong,” always “selfish,” always “self-centered” and everything else that’s negative and destructive.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Hurt, Selfish, Thinking

  Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, May

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• Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross, follow your Lord. The masses are always wrong. In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Heart, Roots

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• There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

  H. L. Mencken

  Business, Simple Solutions, Neat And Tidy

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.443, Vintage

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• Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

  Agatha Christie

  Thinking, May, Imagine

  Agatha Christie (1943). “Triple Threat: Exploits of Three Famous Detectives: Hercule Poirot, Harley Quin and Tuppence”

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• If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Hypocrisy, Contradicting, Aspire

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• In economics, the majority is always wrong.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspirational, Majority, Investing

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “Ambassador's Journal”

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• Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly.

  George Soros

  Wall, Assuming, Streets

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• One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Suffering, Principles, Purpose

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• Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Hinges

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• A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always wrong.

  Pamela McCorduck

  Technology, Propaganda, Persuasive

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• It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Fiction, Get Away

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.76, Macmillan

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• It's always wrong to hate, but it's never wrong to love.

  Lady Gaga

  Hate, Love And Hate, Lgbt

  "Lady Gaga: On the Record with Fuse". TV Movie, 2009.

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• The generally accepted view is that markets are always right -- that is, market prices tend to discount future developments accurately even when it is unclear what those developments are. I start with the opposite view. I believe the market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.

  George Soros

  Believe, Views, Opposites

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

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• The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.

  William Faulkner

  Hate, Simple, Natural Instinct

  William Faulkner (2011). “Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion”, p.420, Modern Library

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• So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics.

  Charlie Munger

  Ethos, Physics, Economics

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• One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

  R. H. Tawney

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?

  Robert Breault

  Office, Political, Trying

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• She didn't give George any too easy a time when she was alive. She was one of those semi-invalids – I believe she had really something wrong with her, but whatever it was she played it for all it was worth. She was capricious, exacting, unreasonable. She complained from morning to night. George was expected to wait on her, hand and foot and everything he did was always wrong and he got cursed for it. Most men, I'm fully convinced, would have hit her with a hatchet long ago.

  Agatha Christie

  Morning, Believe, Men

  "The Blue Geranium: A Miss Marple Short Story".

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• Over the long run, the crowd is always wrong.

  Seth Klarman

  Running, Long, Crowds

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• Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted suicide and euthanasia.

  Gary Bauer

  Suicide, Believe, Government

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• "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Science, Long, History

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• Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite the attempts by many to divide blacks and the gay community with the argument that the latter are seeking some imaginary special rights at the expense of blacks.

  Julian Bond

  Gay, Rights, America

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• people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, People, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low and aspire not at all. They are always wrong. Follow your dreams. Make your wishes. Create the future. And above all, believe in yourself.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Dream, Nice, Believe

  "The Babylon 5 Calendar". 1998.

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