Correct Me If I'm Wrong Quotes

#1. Flora hated the phrase "correct me if I'm wrong." In her experience, people only said it when they knew they were right.

Kate DiCamillo

#2. It seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that there are an awful lot of people in Manhattan. And it's getting worse.

Cynthia Heimel

#3. Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you suppose to be dead? Currently being chased by two Cabals? You're waltzing around Vancouver, eating in restaurants?" (Ash)
"Hell no," Corey said. "I never waltz. I do the fox-trot sometimes though.

Kelley Armstrong

#4. Correct me if I'm wrong. But it was you stuck the head on the policehorse?
It deserved it didn't it. Standin' there whinnying at me in that bloody Kelvinside accent.

Ian Pattison

#5. I haven't seen American Sniper, but correct me if I'm wrong: An occupier mows down faceless Iraqis but the real victim is his anguished soul.

Max Blumenthal

#6. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't driving around on a bus and having a campfire kind of adding to the environment problem?

Will Smith

#7. Correct me if I'm wrong - the gizmo is connected to the flingflang connected to the watzis, watzis connected to the doo-dad connected to the ding dong.

Pat Oliphant

#8. Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?

George Price

#9. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it usually aspiring gangsta rappers who set such store by designer labels?

Lynne Truss

#10. In Pizza Express you can get garlic bread with cheese and tomato. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but that's a pizza.

Jimmy Carr

#11. Be not ashamed to confess that you have been in the wrong. It is but owning that you now have more sense than you had before, to see your error; more humility to acknowledge it; more grace to correct it.

Jeremiah Seed

#12. Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.

Emmylou Harris

#13. 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

#14. The correct form factor for a laptop is obviously 12 and 2 lbs, and I don't understand why everybody gets that wrong.

Linus Torvalds

#15. All birds are perhaps a little wrong, because an absolute once-and-for-all formula for a bird has never been found, just as all novels are bad because the correct formula for a novel has never been found.

Halldor Laxness

#16. Upon disaster depends good fortune;
within good fortune hides disaster.
Where will it end?
For nothing is certain;
what is correct goes astray;
what is right goes wrong.
Our confusion goes on and on.

Lao-Tzu

#17. I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. That's just not okay. I'm from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said 'ain't,' or something like that.

Reese Witherspoon

#18. You believe that some people have dementia and some people do not, but that is not correct. All people have dementia - some are simply in worse condition than others. After all, most people with dementia are unaware that anything is wrong with them.

Hiroshi Yamamoto

#19. If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong.
- Kung Fu, The Legend Continues -

David Carradine

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

George Soros

#21. If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!

Andrew Johnson

#22. Well, the correct answer is he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?

Colin Powell

#23. A brilliant solution to the wrong problem can be worse than no solution at all: solve the correct problem.

Donald A. Norman

#24. What's wrong with being alone anyway? Being alone is sometimes a great place to be, but people are always trying to correct this "problem" for you, even if you yourself don't have any kind of problem with it.

Amy Schumer

#25. The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. To become a better you, keep doing what you have been doing right and learn to correct what you have been doing wrongly.

Israelmore Ayivor

#27. All the wrong questions have been asked and the correct answers are not true.

Michael Hogan

#28. It is downright incredible that an extremely significant proportion of people make the wrong choice. But the good news is that we can course-correct at any stage in our life and get back on the path to finding true happiness and contentment.

Lamees Alhassar

#29. I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.

Roger Ailes

#30. One way or another way it will happen..., until then make the correct choice. You don't want to go into the wrong path!

Deyth Banger

#31. When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need. - Ayurvedic Proverb

Robin Westen

#32. What was wrong with me? Why could I not just flip the switch and see all the brightness ahead if only I chose the correct path? Or rather, why could I see the correct path but not choose to tread upon it?

Hanne Arts

#33. One of the greatest statements you can ever make on earth is to say "I am right, but I may be wrong". Find out where you go wrong and make corrections!

Israelmore Ayivor

#34. Correct me if I am wrong, but I personally feel that the Indian body type is not cut out to be size zero. I am not size zero and I don't believe in that either.

Deepika Padukone

#35. If I'm wrong, correct me. If I'm right, recommend me.

Mitta Xinindlu

#36. Something went wrong. It was correct when I studied it.

Eugene Ormandy

#37. When the vision becomes right [correct], one sees only his own faults and when the vision is wrong [incorrect], he sees others at fault.

Dada Bhagwan

#38. Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.

Christopher Dodd

#39. The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better.

Russell L. Ackoff

#40. When the correct technique feels wrong, different and confusing there is change and grow

Jeff Allen

#41. Can you imagine what you would be like if you didn't have anyone close who was capable of influencing you? Anyone to point out your flaws, to confront you when you went too far, to correct you when you did something wrong?

Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera

#42. It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

Anna Howard Shaw

#43. My conceptual framework, which basically emphasizes the importance of misconceptions, makes me extremely critical of my own decisions. I know that I am bound to be wrong, and therefore am more likely to correct my own mistakes.

George Soros

#44. You choose the wrong career, select the wrong mortgage or fail to save for retirement, markets do not correct those failings. In fact, quite the opposite often happens. It is much easier to make money by catering to consumers' biases than by trying to correct them.

Anonymous

#45. It is incorrect to assume that you cannot find any good in the point of view directly opposite yours.

Daniel Willey

#46. Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.

Richard Whately

#47. Over many decades, our usual practice is that if something we like goes down, we buy more and more. Sometimes something happens, you realize you're wrong, and you get out. But if you develop correct confidence in your judgment, buy more and take advantage of stock prices.

Charlie Munger

#48. If I have done wrong to another person, the correct course of action is to apologize and make amends to that person and not blow it all off and hope that some God is going to forgive me and make it all go away. That sort of mentality is what allows people to not treat others in a way that is good.

Matt Dillahunty

#49. I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

Aleksandar Hemon

#50. If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again- only this time with more wisdom.
But once he has started, a warrior of the light perseveres until the end.

Paulo Coelho

#51. When facing a decision that stands a 50/50 chance of being correct, the choice made will be wrong 80% of the time. Rick Coxen

Frederick L. Coxen

#52. Anything you strive to correct, it will increasingly become wrong. So just let go of that which does not turn out right.

Dada Bhagwan

#53. The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.

Walter Kirn

#54. Always remembering that we might be wrong, we must contemplate alternatives, concoct hedges, and search vigilantly for validation of our assessments. We always sell when a security's price begins to reflect full value, because we are never sure that our thesis will be precisely correct.

Seth Klarman

#55. It is better to be wrong than correct with no desire to be.

Brigitte Bardot

#56. In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.

Blake Shelton

#57. The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it out, see what looks correct, what looks wrong, look at other material which wasn't discussed, figure out what the truth really is. That's what you've got a brain for.

Noam Chomsky

#58. So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

Gene Wilder

#59. I realised when it came to men, I did not pick the beautiful or the correct. I picked the wrong one.

Rabih Alameddine

#60. There is a point in the imagination of a creative man when the wrong thing is correct almost simply because it is wrong.

Gerald Weaver