Quotes About Wrongheaded

#1. Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse.

Jonathan Wilson

#2. One common adage ... that is completely wrongheaded is: You can't go broke taking profits. That's precisely how many traders do go broke. While amateurs go broke by taking large losses, professionals go broke by taking small profits.

William Eckhardt

#3. Reject without regret whatever seems on reflection wrongheaded, dull, destructive, or irrelevant to your vision. It's just as important to be able to discriminate between helpful and unhelpful criticism as it is to be able to write.

Janet Burroway

#4. If I was so malicious or off-color or just plain wrongheaded that I had to constantly censor my conversation with a minister, then I needed the experience anyway.

Charlaine Harris

#5. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.

Epictetus

#6. Republicans are being counseled to move the party to the left, but in my experience, those who advocate more liberal policies for the GOP are wrongheaded or Democrats, or both.

Liz Cheney

#7. If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

David H. Hackworth

#8. Oh, my father sighs, if only we had a screwdriver that could unscrew wrongheaded ideas; if only we had a hammer to drive home good intentions; if only we had a pipe wrench to tighten hearts in everlasting love; a saw that we could use to make a clean cut with the past!

Stefano Benni

#9. The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately unpleasant as the sewers of Paris. With decent and honorable gents, I come all over Platonic. Was ever a woman so perverse and wrongheaded?

Margaret Halsey

#10. I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

Chinua Achebe

#11. Drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrongheaded governmental policies have destroyed many more. I think it's obvious that after 40 years of war on drugs, it has not worked. There should be decriminalization of drugs.

Kofi Annan

#12. Tolerance also requires a public acceptance of beliefs and values at odds with our own, beliefs and values that we may consider wrongheaded and even immoral. ... In this context, a morally passionate citizen becomes strangely intolerable.

Wendy Brown

#13. Once the fire from the retaliatory strike dies down, the American people are going to find out that it is the Clinton Administration's wrongheaded policies that resulted in the creation of this terrorist haven in Afghanistan in the first place.

Dana Rohrabacher

#14. A wrongheaded world," sighed Shiloh Davydov, "where women needs must deny their gender for fear that their ideas will be dismissed.

David Mitchell

#15. Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game.

Craig Brown

#16. Minho flexed his right arm. If these people are really the girls Aris was hanging out with, I'll show 'em these guns of mine and they'll go runnin'.

James Dashner

#17. Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.

Charles Krauthammer

#18. Ither immediately or ultimately every dollar of government spending must be raised through a dollar of taxation. Once we look at the matter. In this way, the supposed miracles of government spending will appear in another light.

Henry Hazlitt

#19. If it is to BE today, it's totally UP TO me NOW. Time for SWIFT Actions, with Fierce Focus, on CLEAR Goals. Time for a Mindset Reset?

Tony Dovale

#20. The thing about me and books is that whichever one I'm reading always reminds me of whatever's happening in my life during that time.

Lauren Barnholdt

#21. No, don't draw away from me. Whatever else I am, I am your son - your most wretched son. If you do not hate me, try to love me a little, Father; it is lonely never to have been loved, only devoured.

Rosemary Sutcliff

#22. Drunks conjure an endless drama from their bottles.

Mason Cooley

#23. I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.

Stephen Covey

#24. Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.

Germaine Greer

#25. Salvation is the most important thing that a person has and the devil knows very well what its value is.

Sunday Adelaja

#26. So anyway, I'm sorry I was a dick.'
'It's fine,' I said.
'No, shut up, I'm atoning.

Robyn Schneider

#27. A matador is a guy who didn't have enough people skills to be promoted to serial killer.

Scott Adams