Being Wrong Quotes

• The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

  Seth Godin

  Failure, Secret, Realizing

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.108, Penguin

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• The worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

  Thomas Tusser

  Peace, Integrity, Patriotic

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• A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

  Thomas Paine

  Integrity, Ignorance, Character

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I don't really care about being right, I just care about success.

  Steve Jobs

  Care, About Success

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• Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

  George Soros

  Mistake, Failure, Understanding

  George Soros, Byron Wien, Krisztina Koenen (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons

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• I don't really care about being right, I just care about success. I don't mind being wrong, and I'll admit that I'm wrong a lot. It doesn't really matter to me too much. What matters to me is that we do the right thing.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, What Matters, Mind

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• I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.

  Harlan Ellison

  Hate, Love Hate, I Hate Love

  Harlan Ellison (1989). “Harlan Ellison's watching”

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  It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

  Thomas Sowell

  Business, Stupid, Government

  "Wake Up, Parents!". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. August 18, 2000.

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• Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.

  Lewis Thomas

  Life, Mistake, Creativity

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Being wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable.

  Jack D. Schwager

  Motivational, Wise Words, Staying

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• Oh press - must you spread hate? Can't you just stick to being wrong?

  Jon Stewart

  Hate, Sticks, Spread

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• Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and taking this in good humor for granted, by having a deep fondness for nature, and by being made jumpy and nervous by ignorance.

  Lewis Thomas

  Motivational, Ignorance, Asking Questions

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• Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Doe, Orthodox

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• We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Past, History, Certain

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• Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pride, Common Sense, Prudence

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.35

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• Persistence and determination are incredibly important. But sometimes you need to analyze the situation and understand when you're wrong. You need to be able to cop to being wrong, learn to change, and continue to grow as a human being.

  Sasha Grey

  Determination, Persistence, Important

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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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• Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Probability, Consequence

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.209, Prabhat Prakashan

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• In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the: process: by which decisions are made. Often what they propose amounts to third-party decision making by people who pay no cost for being wrong-surely one of the least promising ways of reaching decisions satisfactory to those who must live with the consequences.

  Thomas Sowell

  Party, People, Decision

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.129, Basic Books

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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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• 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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• The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe, America, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor”, p.195, Random House

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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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• A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Cutting, Loss, Soul

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