Being Wrong Quotes - Page 2

• One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Life, Letting Go, Creative

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• Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

  J. K. Rowling

  Forgiveness, People, Forgiving

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• Being wrong about important things is exhausting.

  John Irving

  Important, Exhausting, Important Things

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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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• Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

  A.J. Ayer

  Mind, Should, Shows

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• I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Want, Interest, Please

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• I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong.

  Bernard Ebbers

  Economy

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• Being right keeps you in place, being wrong forces you to explore.

  Steven Johnson

  Force

  Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.87, Penguin

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• Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reading, Book, Mean

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.35, Publishdrive

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• The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding.

  Peter Joseph

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

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• There's a long record here of being wrong. There's a good reason for it. There are probably multiple reasons. Certainly proliferation is a hard thing to track, particularly in countries that deny easy and free access and don't have free and open societies.

  David Kay

  Country, Long, Track

  David Kay at Senate hearing, edition.cnn.com. January 29, 2004.

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• In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

  Roger Enrico

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wind

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• The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right.

  Criss Jami

  Ingredients, Firsts, Claims

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.86, Criss Jami

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• I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Literature

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• One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Perfection, Principles, Artistic

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• We would like you to reach the place where you're not willing to listen to people criticize one another... where you take no satisfaction from somebody being wrong... where it matters to you so much that you feel good, that you are only willing to think positive things about people... you are only willing to look for positive aspects; you are only willing to look for solutions, and you are not willing to beat the drum of all of the problems of the world.

  Esther Hicks

  Letting Go, Thinking, People

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• If I have taken the word, by any reason, it has been because I think it is grave to kill men, under the pretext that they are mistaken on the interpretation of some point, for we know that even the chosen ones are not exempt from sometimes being wrong.

  Michael Servetus

  Taken, Men, Thinking

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• You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Risk, Boring

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• Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Dry Up, Way

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.35, Publishdrive

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• The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.

  Eric Ries

  Hardest

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• The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind.

  Criss Jami

  Creativity, Mind, Ingredients

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.44, Criss Jami

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• Search marketing, and most Internet marketing in fact, can be very threatening because there are no rules. There’s no safe haven. To do it right, you need to be willing to be wrong. But search marketing done right is all about being wrong. Experimentation is the only way. No one really knows whether that page will rank #1 in Google; no one really knows which paid search copy will get the highest click rate. Even experts can’t tell you which content will attract the most links. You just have to try it and see.

  Mike Moran

  Safe Haven, Google, Marketing

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• Separate yourself from your ideas and your work and see them as something separate from yourself, you’ll feel you truly have the right to be wrong. If an idea fails, why not let it be the idea’s fault instead of your own? Allow your ideas to fail without turning them into personal defeat. When you fail you discover your boundaries. You map out the edges of your capabilities. And this allows you to eventually move beyond them. Being wrong eventually leads to being right. And even where it doesn’t, it’s still a more interesting path than being nothing.

  Steve Pavlina

  Moving, Ideas, Interesting

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• The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

  Seth Godin

  Inspiring, Insightful, Marketing

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.24, Penguin

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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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