Top 100 Quotes About Being Wrong
#1. There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right.
Edward Abbey
#2. It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
Thomas Sowell
#3. The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong.
G.K. Chesterton
#4. No one who ever follows their conscience ever does wrong. The consequences may not turn out as we intended; it may prove that we made a mistake. But that is not the same as being wrong.
Robert Harris
#5. But to an innovator, being early is not necessarily different from being wrong.
Jon Gertner
#7. Accountability is not about blame, it's not about being wrong, it is about owning the choices you've made, or are making, that create the results you have in your life. And you do create everything in your life.
Claire Fontaine
#8. What makes a person hate themselves?"
"Cowardice, perhaps. Or the eternal fear of being wrong, of not doing what others expect. A few moments ago I was happy, I forgot I was under the sentence of death; then when I remembered the situation I'm in, I felt frightened.
Paulo Coelho
#9. Sometimes the best thing we can do for each other is talk honestly about being wrong.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#10. There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.
Linus Torvalds
#11. You know who your enemy is? You're the enemy. You sit there fat, sloppy, you watch your TV, and you kick back and you judge everybody as being wrong and bad, but you.
Charles Manson
#13. I stopped going to my therapist
Because I knew my therapist
was right, and I wanted
to keep being wrong.
Clementine Von Radics
#14. 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.
Danny Masterson
#15. When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.
Ian McEwan
#16. 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
#18. But never being wrong is no proof that
the method of testing is sound for all cases
Scott Adams
#19. Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.
Ken Robinson
#20. If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case. So dust off your horn and start tooting.
Hugh MacLeod
#21. I hate being wrong, and I hate when people give up.
Jenna Morasca
#22. people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right," said
J.K. Rowling
#23. The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.
Seth Godin
#24. I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
Ira Glass
#25. Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.
Seth Godin
#26. It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Thomas Sowell
#27. The people who are constantly striving to apply skepticism to everything in their lives, the ones who actually care enough about truth and [care to try to] avoid being wrong, and biased, and prejudiced, and clueless; those are the people we need, and need to be.
Matt Dillahunty
#28. I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.
Harlan Ellison
#29. To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.
George Soros
#30. Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong
Kathryn Schulz
#31. A piece of advice: if you want to remain in control of a doomsday cult, don't give a date for the end of the world unless you're really, really sure it's going to happen. Being wrong tends to undermine your authority.
Jennifer Bosworth
#32. Because we are imperfect souls, our knowledge is imperfect. The history of learning is an adventure in overcoming our errors. There is no sin in being wrong. The sin is in our unwillingness to examine our own beliefs, and in believing that our authorities cannot be wrong.
Neil Postman
#33. Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
J.K. Rowling
#34. But nor is the willing embrace of error always beyond us. In fact, this might be the most important thing illusions can teach us: that it is possible, at least some of the time, to find in being wrong a deeper satisfaction than we would have found in being right.
Kathryn Schulz
#35. Being wrong on facts, that's something you have a real responsibility to correct. But being wrong in the fun sports way is part of the interplay.
Joe Posnanski
#36. People who insist upon dressing casually also want to think casually. And in a fallen world, thinking casually means being wrong more often than not.
Douglas Wilson
#37. We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
#38. A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong
Jimmy Cannon
#39. I knew Catholics existed, with their saints and candles and rosaries, and all their other exotic ways of being wrong.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#41. I was utterly free of speculative prejudices. The bear side doesn't appeal to me any more than the bull side, or vice versa. My one steadfast prejudice is against being wrong.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#42. You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways
but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.
Hunter S. Thompson
#43. It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#44. Everyone hates being wrong, Adolin thought. Except my father said he'd rather be wrong, if it would be better for Alethkar. Adolin doubted many lighteyes would rather be proven mad than right.
Brandon Sanderson
#45. If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.
Wolfgang Pauli
#46. People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.
Leah Hager Cohen
#47. We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being different.
Iyanla Vanzant
#48. Evolution means letting go of our false fundamentals so that God can get into those shadowy places we're not sure we want him to be. It means being okay with being wrong, okay with not having all the answers, okay with never being finished.
Rachel Held Evans
#49. Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up ...
Arthur Schopenhauer
#50. Brilliance in a scientist does not consist in being right more often but in being wrong about more interesting topics.
Kent Beck
#51. No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the "margin of safety" - never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be - can you minimize your odds of error.
Benjamin Graham
#52. It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority's falsehood as truth, could be fatal.
Thomas Szasz
#53. I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.
Alan Dershowitz
#54. After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.
J.L. Austin
#55. How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.
Albert Camus
#56. Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.
Steven Johnson
#57. I didn't think about
its being wrong to go in and try on the brooch; but I see now
that it was and I'll never do it again. That's one good thing
about me. I never do the same naughty thing twice
L.M. Montgomery
#58. If I have taken the word, by any reason, it has been because I think it is grave to kill men, under the pretext that they are mistaken on the interpretation of some point, for we know that even the chosen ones are not exempt from sometimes being wrong.
Michael Servetus
#59. The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
Seth Godin
#60. Fear of being wrong paralyzes people. Get over it! If you're wrong, invent a new narrative and move on. - L. R. W. Lee
L.R.W. Lee
#61. Being wrong about important things is exhausting.
John Irving
#62. Do I know I'm right? Judgments aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being, as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.
Tony Blair
#63. I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong.
Bernard Ebbers
#64. Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.
Robert D. Arnott
#65. So the studies don't back me up. There'll always be more studies. We'll change our minds and I'll have been right all along until we change our minds again, send me back to being wrong.
Karen Joy Fowler
#66. There are surely worse things than being wrong, and being dull and pedantic are surely among them.
Mark Kac
#67. I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#68. I know that I am not always right to the perception of some, but I am not daunted of being wrong. That's the effectiveness of confidence.
Lionel Suggs
#69. To live a creative life we must loose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Pearce
#70. There's a long record here of being wrong. There's a good reason for it. There are probably multiple reasons. Certainly proliferation is a hard thing to track, particularly in countries that deny easy and free access and don't have free and open societies.
David Kay
#71. I read a lot, almost anything and everything. I make an effort to use any knowledge I attain and express my opinions even at the risk of being wrong at times.
Malcolm Goodwin
#72. Ninety-five percent of the trading errors you are likely to make - causing the money to just evaporate before your eyes - will stem from your attitudes about being wrong, losing money, missing out, and leaving money on the table. What I call the four primary trading fears.
Mark Douglas
#73. You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat. But it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you musn't suffer from being wrong.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#74. (My husband's tongue-in-cheek definition of positive is "being wrong at the top of your voice.") If
Kathy Ide
#75. I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
Jimmy Hoffa
#76. Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and taking this in good humor for granted, by having a deep fondness for nature, and by being made jumpy and nervous by ignorance.
Lewis Thomas
#77. The connected economy of ideas demands that we contribute initiative. And yet we resist, because our lizard brain, the one that lives in fear, relentlessly exaggerates the cost of being wrong.
Seth Godin
#78. Value investing is predicated on the efficient market hypothesis being wrong.
Seth Klarman
#79. Unless you experience the unpleasant symptoms of being wrong, your brain will never revise its models. Before your neurons can succeed, they must repeatedly fail. There are no shortcuts for this painstaking process.
Jonah Lehrer
#80. Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
Charles Caleb Colton
#81. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
Isaac Asimov
#83. I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#84. 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
#86. One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#87. There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#88. That's what getting old is: When you can no longer bear the consequences of being wrong.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#89. The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.
Chuck Palahniuk
#90. The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.
Burt Reynolds
#91. I may have my fault's but being wrong isn't one of them
Unknown
#92. Sometimes buying early on the way down looks like being wrong, but it isn't.
Seth Klarman
#93. 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
#94. I actually believed if you work hard enough it was inevitable you'd succeed. Then I lived the 'Social Network' movie, but only the first half. The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.
Eric Ries
#95. The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.
Paul Tournier
#96. You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
Norton Juster
#97. Let's be honest about journalists: We find a lot of ways of being wrong.
E.J. Dionne Jr.
#98. I don't mind being wrong, and I don't mind changing my mind.
Martin Seligman
#100. Being wrong is part of being creative. You really can't make any kind of creative contribution without doing it wrong a few times. There's just no other way to do it.
Jim Hough
