Always Wrong Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.

  Tracy Kidder

  People, Humanity, Together

  Tracy Kidder (1989). “Among School Children”, p.320, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Science, Men, Humanity

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• People recognize me from everything and as soon as I think I know where they know me from, I'm always wrong.

  Niecy Nash

  Thinking, People, Know Me

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• In economics, the majority is always wrong.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspirational, Majority, Investing

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

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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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• The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Majority, Minorities, Literature

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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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• No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this life as it is right now. Leave what happens after you die till after you die.

  Brad Warner

  Matter, This Life, Our Future

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.58, New World Library

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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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• Early numbers are always wrong.

  Mary Cheney

  Numbers

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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 of the biggest mistakes that most people make is clinging to the excuse that the time isn't quite right to take action. Well, let me tell you something: In my experience, conditions are never right at the right time. The timing is always wrong. So if you're waiting for everything to be perfect before taking action, you have a foolproof excuse for never taking action.

  Robert Ringer

  Mistake, Perfect, People

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• It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Majority Rule, Democracy

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

  Andre Gide

  Devil, Lasts, Conversation

  "Andre Gide Journals 1889-1949". Book by André Gide, 1917.

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• The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Eye, Acting

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• Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.

  George Soros

  Views, Biased

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

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