Wrong Thinking Quotes

• 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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• Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.

  George Orwell

  Thinking

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• Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and Start being positive about what could go right.

  Zig Ziglar

  Thinking Right, Being Positive, Being Afraid

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 24, 2014

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• Our confession will either imprison us or set us free. Our confession is the result of our believing, and our believing is the result of our right or wrong thinking.

  Kenneth E. Hagin

  Believe, Thinking, Confession

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• What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing.

  Joseph Prince

  Powerful, Believe, Thinking

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

  Paul Bourget

  Happiness, Thinking, Ill Health

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• I have been guilty of wrong thinking.

  Anne Hutchinson

  Thinking, Guilty, Has Beens

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• Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.

  James Dyson

  Mistake, Thinking, Ideas

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• What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone.

  Krishnananda Saraswati

  Philosophy, Men, Thinking

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• One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Thinking, Cases

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.

  Orson Scott Card

  Ignorance, Hard Times, Winning

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.236, Macmillan

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