Top 56 Quotes About Wrongness

#1. My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, 'a place beyond rightness and wrongness.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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#2. We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.

Pema Chodron

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#3. Christopher Nolan's 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness.

Joe Morgenstern

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#4. The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.

Gore Vidal

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#5. What if there is no such thing as other people's wrongness ... ?

Jay Woodman

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#6. In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

Aristotle.

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#7. A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

China Mieville

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#8. If you're older, you're smarter. I just believe that. If you're in an argument with someone older than you, you should listen to 'em. Even if they're wrong, their wrongness is rooted in more information than you have.

Louis C.K.

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#9. Klosterman's Razor: the philosophical belief that the best hypothesis is the one that reflexively accepts its potential wrongness to begin with. _

Chuck Klosterman

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#10. A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.

China Mieville

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#11. Part of me wants to ignore the wrongness and just believe him, but then I'd be pretending as much as he is. No matter how much I want to deny the truth, it gets more obvious every day that he's a drowning man clinging to a sinking raft.

Anonymous

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#12. [T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

Truman Capote

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#13. Your opponent's wrong doesn't automatically make you right. Most fights aren't about who's right; they are contention over degrees of wrongness.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#14. Third, the "correcting" to be done is not a matter of "straightening them out." It is not a matter of hammering on their wrongness and on what is going to happen to them if they don't change their ways. It is a matter of restoration. The

Dallas Willard

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#15. That is to say, if we think the big takeaway from this Big Book is the rightness or wrongness of homosexual activity, then we've managed to take a sublime narrative and pound it into a single talking point.

Kevin DeYoung

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#16. I bored myself to tears with the daytime television drama of confrontation (I've been wronged!). I winced at sluggish morning half-memories of wearing wrongness like a lampshade on my head (I'm mentally ill!).

Merri Lisa Johnson

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#17. 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

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#18. The principle cannot be denied: the fiercer the struggle against the injustice you suffer, the blinder you will be to the injustice you inflict. We tend to translate the presumed wrongness of our enemies into an unfaltering conviction of our own rightness.

Miroslav Volf

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#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

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#20. Then her Truthwitchery exploded - a coating, scraping sensation against her neck that heralded wrongness.

Susan Dennard

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#21. Women's flesh is evidence of a God-given wrongness; whereas fat men are fat gods.

Naomi Wolf

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#22. Embrace the wrongness because it'll make the eventual rightness even sweeter

Carrie Hope Fletcher

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#23. Run, run, far away from him or her, and say what President Bartlet once said on The West Wing: "Stand there in your wrongness and be wrong and get used to it." White

Phoebe Robinson

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#24. People who are wrong during particularly important moments inevitably spend the rest of their lives trying to explain how their wrongness was paradoxically correct, or - at the very least - why their wrongness "felt right at the time," which is very, very different from being authentically correct.

Chuck Klosterman

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#25. The Universe is not discriminating about the rightness or the wrongness of your request. It is here to accommodate all requests. All you have to do is be a Vibrational Match to your request, and the Universe will yield it to you.

Esther Hicks

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#26. Yet his feeling of wrongness now ached in his skull.

Steven Erikson

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#27. Pro-life advocates don't oppose abortion because they find it distasteful; they oppose it because it violates rational moral principles. The negative emotional response follows from the moral wrongness of the act.

Scott Klusendorf

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#28. Error in extremis - extremely pure, extremely persistent, or extremely peculiar - becomes insanity. madness is radical wrongness.

Kathryn Schulz

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#29. Too fearful to intervene and hold back the tormenter, she was pleading instead with the victim to be more submissive. It was a solution that would resolve the conflict while entrenching the problem. Aedan didn't have the words to understand, but he could feel the wrongness of it.

Jonathan Renshaw

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#30. The second kind are invited by bad character, and the problems such a person has then cannot be put right until he puts himself right. It is not something a proud man can do, because proud men see no wrongness in themselves.

John C. Wright

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#31. An air car was just landing in the garden by the pool and beings under it were complaining of injuries and indignities done them. Perhaps this was the trouble he could feel? Grasses were for walking on, flowers and bushes were not - this was a wrongness.

Robert A. Heinlein

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#32. it is ultimately wrongness, not rightness, that can teach us who we are.

Kathryn Schulz

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#33. There's no standard career path to becoming a deconstructor of wrongness,

David H. Freedman

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#34. People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

Charles Kettering

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#35. NVC shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, insults, or putdowns, and without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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#36. He carried that obsession with him always. And in the end, by its very wrongness, it saved his life.

Ford Madox Ford

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#37. When you are consumed with the rightness or wrongness of a given issue - whether it's fracking or gun control or genetically engineered food - it's easy to lose track of what the issue actually is.

Steven D. Levitt

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#38. Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I'll meet you there

Rumi

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#39. Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need to be taught moral notions such as the wrongness of harming another person.

Paul Bloom

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#40. And it's nagging at you, but you can't quite put your finger on it? It's like that, all the time. Just this feeling of wrongness. Like the world doesn't make sense any more without him in it.' A

Emma Kavanagh

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#41. There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.

Criss Jami

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#42. Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.

Josiah Bartlett

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#43. Rationality doesn't exist; right is absence of wrongness and wrong is what seems to be unfair.

M.F. Moonzajer

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#44. Even if someone wasn't perfect or even especially good, you couldn't dismiss the love they felt. Love was always love; it had a rightness all its own, even if the person feeling the love was full of wrongness.

Marisa De Los Santos

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#45. Unless you've touched a corpse before, you can't comprehend the visceral wrongness of inert flesh wrapped around an inanimate object that wears your mother's face.

Elan Mastai

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#46. What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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#47. I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in ... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.

Sam Shepard

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#48. Paris was all so ... Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all - the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Children, really quite small children, speaking fluent French!

David Nicholls

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#49. Evil was the most contagious of diseases, so virulent that no herb, surgery, or dream-humor could cure it. One's sense of what was normal, acceptable, became distorted by proximity to wrongness; entire nations had succumbed this way, first to decadence, then collapse.

N.K. Jemisin

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#50. There was something else I couldn't quite define
something that made me uneasy. We were a wrong fit, like unmatching puzzle pieces.

Heather Anastasiu

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#51. Having the right priorities in a wrong world will humble you with a journey that only love can sustain.

Bryant McGill

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#52. How can you just be so wrong about something?

John Green

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#53. Even geniuses could get things wrong-look at Einstein's unfortunate choice of a hairdresser.

Joss Stirling

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#54. It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

Niels Bohr

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#55. Stop holding-on to the wrong people. Let them go on their own way; if not for you, then for them.

Bryant McGill

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#56. You can be as sincere as hell and still be wrong.

Jim Butcher

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