Top 100 Always Wrong Quotes
#1. Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.
Richard Dawkins
#2. When people tell you there's something wrong with a story, they're almost always right. When they tell what it is that's wrong and how it can be fixed, they're almost always wrong.
Neil Gaiman
#3. The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
Jean De La Fontaine
#4. Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong.
Truman Capote
#5. Watch what everyone else does
do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.
Earl Nightingale
#6. There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.
Jerome K. Jerome
#7. Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#8. After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.
Harold Macmillan
#9. Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted suicide and euthanasia.
Gary Bauer
#10. A monkey is a much better voter than a socialist. Statistically speaking, if we assume that there are two options to choose from: the "A" and the "B" - the monkey is voting randomly, so its wrong 50% of the time. The socialist, however - is always wrong.
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
#11. We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.
George Bernard Shaw
#12. It's very common to say that Star Wars in the late '70s, that was kind of perfect for Cold War culture and the aftermath of Vietnam in the '60s to have an upbeat, hopeful, cartoonish tale of a hero's journey. I think those explanations are easy to offer and almost always wrong.
Cass Sunstein
#13. It's always wrong to hate but it's never wrong to love.
Lady Gaga
#14. Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly.
George Soros
#15. If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given to us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are - like fishes not meant to swim.
Cyril Connolly
#17. As a motivation - for humans, but Christians especially - guilt is always wrong and can never move them to do anything He wants of them. Never let them realize that.
Geoffrey Wood
#18. No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this life as it is right now. Leave what happens after you die till after you die.
Brad Warner
#19. Do you want to be a poker player? Then this is your path, the only one. You will be wrong, always wrong. But you must keep being wrong and keep whittling away at that wrongness.
Haseeb Qureshi
#20. People think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.
Jodi Picoult
#21. Our starting point is always wrong. Instead of beginning with ourselves,we always want to change others first and ourselves last. If everyone would begin first with themselves, then there would be peace all around!
Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
#22. Over the long run, the crowd is always wrong.
Seth Klarman
#23. Experience teaches us that when "everyone" comes to the same conclusion, that conclusion is just about always wrong.
David Dreman
#24. The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
Henrik Ibsen
#25. They don't think "I care," "I hurt," or "I have feelings." It just seems like I'm always "wrong," always "selfish," always "self-centered" and everything else that's negative and destructive.
Beatrice Sparks
#26. Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?
Robert Breault
#27. If we accept the premise that we're always wrong, it really removes the incentive to spend a lot of time trying to make good guesses because even the good guesses turn out to be wrong. So, make plausible guesses ... and tell a good story.
James S.A. Corey
#28. You know what I hate about you?" "My hat?" "That too," Holden said. "But mostly it's that I hate everything you say, but you're not always wrong.
James S.A. Corey
#29. The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#30. I'm always right, always wrong. Dressing bad's like loving you there is nothing i haven't worn. Nothing, I haven't said before. You are nothing I haven't felt before.
Tegan Quin
#31. Investors covet past improvements but also always believe pricing unimaginable future creativity and efficiency gains is Pollyannaish. And they're always wrong. Bet on it.
Kenneth Fisher
#32. Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.
Agatha Christie
#33. Those who had easy answers, be they on the right or the left, were always wrong. The world is complex. It is never one-size-fits-all.
Harlan Coben
#34. Vegans are always wrong, but damn pleased with themselves
Rasmussen
#35. One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
Andre Gide
#36. I can't stand it when a player whines to me or his teammates or his wife or the writers or anyone else. A whiner is almost always wrong. A winner never whines.
Paul Brown
#38. The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.
Jim Rogers
#39. The masses are always wrong - Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.
Charles Bukowski
#40. My dancing heart has danced itself apart and I was wrong, of course I was wrong, I am always wrong, everything is always wrong.
Kiersten White
#42. And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.
Jodi Picoult
#44. Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong.
Peter Singer
#48. You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
Billy Joel
#49. It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.
Flannery O'Connor
#50. There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.
Julian Baggini
#51. Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#52. Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.
Philip Roth
#53. Skepticism is only a time-based reality, and as an ultimate reality, it's always wrong, because everything always happens.
Kevin Shields
#54. People recognize me from everything and as soon as I think I know where they know me from, I'm always wrong.
Niecy Nash
#55. It's not always wrong to quit. We should never hold onto a mistake just because we spent a lot of time making it.
Richard Paul Evans
#56. You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway.
Robert Jordan
#57. The poets are wrong of course [ ... ] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.
William Faulkner
#58. If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#59. Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
George Soros
#60. There was always one. Every village seemed to have one young woman who believed her beauty could somehow magically protect her from a monster. Somehow, they would be special enough to tame the Beast.
They were always wrong.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#61. One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.
R. H. Tawney
#62. I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.
Charles Fort
#63. The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth.
William Faulkner
#64. Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.
Noah Webster
#65. Socrates put it perfectly in financial matters at least: "The majority is always wrong.
Peter B. Lockhart
#66. If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.
Luc De Clapiers
#67. The majority is almost always wrong. The crowd is untruth. Scapegoating is demonic.
Brian Zahnd
#69. A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always wrong.
Pamela McCorduck
#70. So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics.
Charlie Munger
#71. I'm not someone who thinks Republicans are always wrong and Democrats are always right.
Elizabeth Warren
#73. She still didn't like the idea. But she wouldn't question me again. She placed the judgment of her humans ahead of her own, as a matter of courtesy and pride, even if she was always right and we were always wrong. Good dogs are like that.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#74. There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.
Rush Limbaugh
#75. How do you know if you're making the right decision?
Easy. Just like two and two always add up to four, kindness and forgiveness is always right, hate and revenge is always wrong.
Fannie Flagg
#76. Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash so well a cop won't find it. They're always wrong.
Alafair Burke
#77. Don't make decisions by majority vote. The majority is almost always wrong.
Adrian Rogers
#78. The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.
George Soros
#79. A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
Henrik Ibsen
#80. Insanity? The mental processes of a man with whom one disagrees, are always wrong. Where is the line between wrong mind and sane mind? It is inconceivable that any sane man can radically disagree with one's most sane conclusions.
Jack London
#81. I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much worse jobs and suffer such indignities and hardships.
Richard Flanagan
#82. Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#83. Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
Neil Gaiman
#84. Murder is always wrong, doesn't matter who does the killin'. Hurtin' someone else is always wrong. Everyone's got their burdens. The way the world is, we need faith and hope and joyful praise more than ever to get through.
Martina Boone
#85. But then it dawned on me that the opinion of someone who is always wrong has its own special utility to decision-makers.
Warren Buffett
#86. It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.
Chris Patten
#87. Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
Barry O'Farrell
#88. Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.
Tracy Kidder
#89. I do not think that war is always wrong: sometimes it is necessary to stop a dictator, prevent massive human-rights abuses, or expel an invader. But I have also seen that in the modern world, civil wars are the greatest threat to humanitarian security.
Jonathan Powell
#90. Simon looked down at himself and took it all in. The billows of the shirt. The deep, chest-exposing V. The tightness of the leather. "Why is it," he said after a moment, "that whenever I think I've found the most terrible thing that could happen to me, I'm always wrong.
Cassandra Clare
#91. He who considers more deeply knows that, whatever his acts and judgements may be, he is always wrong.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#92. It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.
Joseph Campbell
#93. You know ... there is a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the time ... husband!!!
Bill Maher
#94. I didn't ever feel close to my real family. I didn't feel validated; I never felt right because I was always wrong.
Richard Lewis
#95. Revenge is a sorrow for the person who has to take it on. And the person who is rash enough to think it's going to help a situation is always wrong.
Louise Erdrich
#96. It can't happen here is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
Karl Popper
#98. Rumor is not always wrong
Tacitus
#99. The operating room turns you into somebody who's never wrong. Much like writing."
"Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right some day is the perversity that draws you on.
Philip Roth
#100. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all the other things we know. That's why it's almost always wrong to seek the "real meaning" of anything. A thing with just one meaning has scarcely any meaning at all.
Marvin Minsky
