Top 36 Proved Them Wrong Quotes
#1. How many managers told me, 'Get a nose job. You're not pretty enough?' But I proved them wrong.
Lea Michele
#2. People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.
Kate Bush
#3. I think we've broken a lot of barriers and kind of shattered our "glass ceiling" that was there for women. There are so many great fighters and we've proved a lot of people wrong. A lot of the times our fights are the best fights on the card.
Miesha Tate
#4. The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
Colin Powell
#5. I hate to be wrong. It makes me feel like a failure. Being wrong has the same affect on me as a lack of food or sleep. It lowers my entire mood. But, I need to be proved wrong sometimes, as it restores humility, and doesn't allow my ego to swell to stupidly big sizes.
Paul Kelly
#6. Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical and wrong.
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
#7. But all our attempts have proved to be singularly ineffectual, and will continue to do so as long as we try to convince ourselves and the world that it is only they, our opponents, who are all wrong, morally and philosophically.
C. G. Jung
#8. Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong.
Jill Lepore
#9. Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win.
John Baldacci
#11. People can forgive anything except being proved wrong.
Claudia Gray
#12. And James Loewen just proved that we all are wrong... this concept is fucking hard to be swallowed.
Deyth Banger
#13. A man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#14. I never make a prediction that can be proved wrong within 24 hours.
Louis Rukeyser
#15. We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
James Truslow Adams
#16. be skeptical of any nutritional claims; they are unlikely to be from randomized trials and may soon be proved wrong.
Vinayak K. Prasad
#17. You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured! I was cured alright.
Anthony Burgess
#18. Public opinion polls have long proved there is majority support for pretty much every issue that the women's movement has brought up, but those of us, women or men, who identify with feminism are still made to feel isolated, wrong, out of step.
Gloria Steinem
#19. He saw her red eyes filled with tears of anger.
"Tell me why this rage?" He asked holding her in his arms. "Why do you fence for yourself so much?
She sighed and muttered, "Because all I really want is nothing but to be proved wrong.
Sanhita Baruah
#20. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken in most instances such a weary while to find out how wrong, that the authority is proved to be fallible.
Charles Dickens
#21. Risk is important to me as a writer, reader, and editor. I love stories that take a premise or style that seems unlikely to succeed, whose first paragraphs risk a raised eyebrow or groan, and whose last paragraphs are then all that much sweeter a triumph. Basically, I love being proved wrong.
Caitlin Horrocks
#22. I once thought the three most important words in creation were 'whatever proved necessary,'" he said. "And now?" she gasped against his mouth. "Now I know I was wrong. The three most important words in creation are 'I love you
Gena Showalter
#23. Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.
Jerry Bruckheimer
#24. A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
A.P. Herbert
#25. The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
Aldous Huxley
#26. Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.
Steven Crocker
#27. She swept away, putting an extra kink into her walk. I would not have thought that a woman with an ass that bony could make it wiggle so much but she proved me wrong.
Ilona Andrews
#28. But facts are facts, and if one is proved to be wrong, one must just be humble about it and start again.
Agatha Christie
#29. It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.
Josiah Warren
#30. The one experience that I hope every student has at some point in their lives is to have some belief you profoundly, deeply hold, proved to be wrong because that is the most eye-opening experience you can have, and as a scientist, to me, is the most exciting experience I can ever have.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#31. This may sound funny but somewhere in the back of my mind I thought the world would stop for my first day of JH. The day proved me wrong and I've grown to realize that nothing will be quite as I dreamed them up.
Latoya Hunter
#32. The wrong way to go about this is to say: Well, researchers have 'proved' that animals only understand fifty words or something similarly absurd. Or that communication with other species is an illusion. Communication is not the preserve of humans; it is the one thing that is truly universal.
Lawrence Anthony
#33. Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.
George Bernard Shaw
#34. You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.
Alison Jackson
#35. One problem with making moral compromises is that doing the right thing becomes increasingly difficult: it requires admitting that one's earlier acts were wrong. In effect, to get clean, one must first get dirtier, a step that few proved willing to take.
Dan McMillan
#36. Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.
John Spratt
