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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• 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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• 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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• It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

  Isaac Asimov

  Science, Scientist, Have Confidence

  "Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright". Book by Isaac Asimov, p. 235, 1978.

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• A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

  Jimmy Cannon

  Sports, Writing, Guy

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

  Eric Ries

  Hardest

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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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• 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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• 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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• Sometimes buying early on the way down looks like being wrong, but it isn't.

  Seth Klarman

  Looks, Investing, Way

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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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• 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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• 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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• Michael Marcus taught me one other thing that is absolutely critical: You have to be willing to make mistakes regularly; there is nothing wrong with it. Michael taught me about making your best judgment, being wrong, making your next best judgment, being wrong, making your third best judgment, and then doubling your money.

  Bruce Kovner

  Mistake, Next, Taught

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