Wrong Quotes

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

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way - and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.

Building a house is like producing a movie. There's no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be flexible and creative. You have to move fast, be prepared - or it quickly becomes costly.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.

If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like everybody else. I mean I wasn't like the other kids. I didn't know what that was. But I guess it was when I was in seventh or eighth grade, I'm like, 'Hey, something's wrong here.'

Fruit often ends up rotting in the crisper drawer. Well, that's the wrong place to put it. Out of sight, out of mind. The kids all know where the junk-food shelf is. Make the fruit that easy to get to. Put a big huge bowl of fruit on the counter.

Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to tell you you're an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.

Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.

If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can't go wrong. That's what I tell my kids, anyway.

There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.

We didn't do anything wrong... Some are frustrated that we did it this way.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.

What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.

There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.