Top 100 Wrong Answer Quotes
#2. Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.
Robert Ballard
#3. There is not a right and a wrong answer to every question.
Dallin H. Oaks
#4. The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.
Ward Cunningham
#5. I hated her; I wanted her to burn, the way so many of the corrupted had burned, because she'd put her hold on them. But wanting cruelty felt like another wrong answer in an endless chain.
Naomi Novik
#6. If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer.
We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question.
Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.
Amory Lovins
#7. The manager frowned, as if the middle Baudelaire had given him the wrong answer.
That's the rooftop bathing salon," he said. "People who sunbathe aren't usually interested in library science, so they're not picky about the salon's location. Now get moving!
Lemony Snicket
#8. Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.
Robert Breault
#9. Science seeks the right answer, humor the right wrong answer.
Brian Spellman
#10. James stared at him for a moment, a brief moment, before his stonelike fist landed in Richard's gut. Wrong answer. Try again.
Johanna Lindsey
#11. Why don't I talk about Big Data? Because I am focused on intelligent answers and not speeds and feeds. It doesn't matter if it is quick if it's the wrong answer.
Michael J. Saylor
#12. I've been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If that were to happen, the machine would still work fine - we just wouldn't know it.
Avi Rubin
#13. When I use a PC today I cannot understand why a machine with 1,000 times more processing power has a worse user response than the machine I was using in the late '80s at Acorn,' remarks Steve Furber. 'Well, I do know why it is, but it still seems the wrong answer.
Tom Lean
#14. My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#15. Wrong answer," Luc said, voice low as he dropped Lyla. "You always have a choice. It's the one thing that no one can strip from us.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#16. We need to be together."
"Why?" I asked softly. The word was carried away on the wind, but he heard.
"Because I want you."
I gave him a sad smile, wondering if we'd meet again in the land of the dead. "Wrong answer," I told him.
I let go
Richelle Mead
#18. Given a test question, every wrong answer you eliminate from options A - E increases your chances of getting the right answer by 20percent.
The more you identify what you should not be doing, the closer you get to the things you should do.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#19. So I ask myself the question, "if I loved myself, truly and deeply, what would I do?" I love this question. There is no threat, no right or wrong answer, only an invitation to my truth in this present moment.
Kamal Ravikant
#21. A cold feeling crept over me, as if there actually was a right or wrong answer to the question. In English class, there were no right or wrong answers as long as you could find evidence to back up your opinion.
Kami Garcia
#22. At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt.
Angela Merkel
#23. Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.
Peter Drucker
#25. The wrong answer is the right answer to a different question.
Paul Sloane
#26. The wrong answer will indicate the right one.
Paulo Coelho
#27. In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel that there is an anti-mathematical principle that is luring us into the wrong answers.
Eric Butterworth
#28. You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.
George Bernard Shaw
#29. People try to make sense of things, and if they don't know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.
Ann Aguirre
#30. It's impossible, the not-knowing, but it's better than getting the wrong answer.
Stephanie Perkins
#31. The MRI has a repertoire of noises that resemble, in no particular order: a game-show buzzer for a wrong answer, urgent knocking, a modem from 1992, a grizzly-bear growl, and a man with a raspy voice shouting what sounds like "mother cooler!
A. J. Jacobs
#32. Religions exist because people would rather have a wrong answer than no answer at all.
Chuck Palahniuk
#33. Blackjack is very scientific. There's always a right answer and a wrong answer. Do you take a card, increase your bet, bet big or bet small. There's absolutely a right and wrong answer.
Charlie Ergen
#34. Being an entrepreneur is a mindset. You have to see things as opportunities all the time. I like to do interviews. I like to push people on certain topics. I like to dig into the stories where there's not necessarily a right or wrong answer.
Soledad O'Brien
#35. To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.
Janet Jackson
#36. There is no wrong answer. Even so, it is easy to receive wrong results, simply by asking the wrong question.
Brunonia Barry
#37. I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.
Robert Ballard
#38. Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question.
Warren Christopher
#39. If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.
Duff Goldman
#40. I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts. Your mind rather than your emotions must answer for the success of matrimony. It must be friendship - a calm companionship which can last through the years.
Carole Lombard
#41. To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#42. Keith Richards ... was once asked how he came up with all those amazing guitar riffs. His answer? He just starts playing until he makes the right mistake. In other words he's optimistic he will create something good by virtue of getting something "wrong."
Mark Stevenson
#43. Rich people always had someone to call who could arrange something that the average guy couldn't get done, no matter how right or wrong. The only call the poor man could make was to Jesus. If Jesus didn't answer, Smith and Wesson always did.
James Anderson
#44. You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?" "No - " "To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question." I
Ursula K. Le Guin
#45. Do you trust me?"
She could still hear him, through flesh and noise.
"I love you!" she shouted.
It wasn't the answer he'd expected or the she'd expected to give. It was the wrong time, the wrong thing to say, but her answer lit a fire in his eyes.
Dawn Metcalf
#46. When Daddy didn't answer, I knew that something was wrong. Mariah thought back to that seemingly endless drive from Greenwich Village as she had rushed to New Jersey that night.
Mary Higgins Clark
#47. Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible.
Caroline Leavitt
#48. What sort of job can you hold in America in which it is safe to hold the personal conviction that same-sex marriage is wrong? The answer: there is no such job. Except Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. Then you're fine.
Ben Shapiro
#49. As in arithmetic-there is only one right answer to a sum, and all other answers are wrong; but some answers are much nearer being right than others.
C.S. Lewis
#50. A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?
Ayn Rand
#51. Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg
#52. I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer.
A.A. Milne
#53. Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.
Oprah Winfrey
#54. Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.
Mark McKinnon
#55. A learner rather"
Stephen's answer to Deasy who says "You were not born to be a teacher, I think. Perhaps I am wrong." (Episode 2, line 403 in the Gabler edition)
James Joyce
#56. Well, what was wrong with it?"
"We don't know," says James.
"That's a stupid rotten answer."
"Life is sometimes rotten and stupid.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#57. To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong ...
H.L. Mencken
#58. For every question, there is an answer.
Where everybody fails is by asking the wrong question.
Richard Diaz
#59. Things can make sense at the time, but as you get older those consolations no longer help you sleep. It's the only thing I've learned. We all think we know the answer, and we're all wrong. Shit, I'm not sure we even know what the question is.
Mark Mills
#60. How do we change the world is the wrong question to ask or try to answer. We are never stagnant just and neither is the world. It's changing every moment of every day. The real question is how do we develop it.
Matthew Donnelly
#61. Which one is right? Which one is wrong? When you feel you could answer that type of questions, you trapped on your own perception.
-Back cover, Andante Part 1, English modified-
Ida R. Yulia
#62. The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#63. Many people can do all the wrong in this world and get away with it. I am not one of these people. I am a friend and servant of the almighty God Jehovah and always have the highest authority to answer to. With him...integrity is everything.
Timothy Pina
#64. If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, 'You can't afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.' The answer has to be only one thing, which is 'I love you.'
Rory Stewart
#65. Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong ... The answer to bad religion is better religion
prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.
Jim Wallis
#66. Here are the three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions.
John Lubbock
#67. The answer you're looking for is inside of you...but it's wrong..
Corrado Guzzanti
#68. I know, now, how I would answer Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.
Madeline Miller
#69. There is always a right answer for every question, even for the wrong ones.
M.F. Moonzajer
#70. for every complex question, there is an answer that is simple, elegant and wrong.
Venkatesh G. Rao
#71. A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?
Lord Byron
#72. Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.
Ravi Zacharias
#73. What were you wrong about?" I ask in all seriousness. He throws me a glare, looking like he might not answer. "About Daughters of Men." "Oh? We're not all freakish, repulsive animals who sully your reputation?" "No, I was right about all that.
Susan Ee
#74. You think you should have an answer to the question, 'What's wrong?' You wish you knew. No one can understand how much you wish you knew. You know you must be horrible to live with, to be around. Because you cannot stand to be you - to be in your own skin.
Juliann Garey
#75. I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will.
Anne Rice
#76. No matter how far you have traveled down the wrong path, the correct answer is to turn around.
Anonymous
#77. It's hard to answer the question "what's wrong?" when nothing is right.
Anonymous
#78. I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question.
Gene Perret
#79. Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.
Sigmund Freud
#80. There's no right answer
to the wrong question.
Now what do we do?
Ursula K. Le Guin
#81. Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber
#82. She said, right in front of your mother, that you like blow jobs in the morning."
Another beat of silence.
"She's wrong," Lee finally said. "I like 'em anytime."
This time I was silent for a beat, not certain I liked this answer.
Kristen Ashley
#83. Then it came to me: I was asking the wrong question. The right one is: Where is God in gang warfare? And the answer is, The same place God is in Darfur, and in our alcoholism, and when children are bullied: being crucified.
Anne Lamott
#84. You ask politicians a question, and they have an answer. It's almost like the more articulate the answer, the more something feels wrong because that question takes thought.
Ken Leung
#85. Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
John Tukey
#86. I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.
Dominic Monaghan
#87. Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.
Jasper Fforde
#88. I suppose there's no good answer to that, Danny. I wish there was. But if you take the wrong, path, something deep inside you will feel twisted. There are times when that will be the only way to know the right from the wrong.
Inara Scott
#89. I guess people can't be content without answers, even if they're wrong. We'd rather have a lie than a question that we can never know the answer to.
Stephanie Oakes
#90. Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact.
Alan Bean
#91. If we're ever found out," he murmured in answer, "it could ruin us. And now we've got the added bonus of getting our
hearts broken if something goes wrong.
Abigail Roux
#92. Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'
Marilyn Monroe
#93. Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is "no." That's not America.
Colin Powell
#94. I never thought that I will be famous in math with this that with wrong solving the problems in math I get the right answer. But it looks I'm now Famous!
Deyth Banger
#95. What's wrong? wasn't such an easy question to answer.
Rainbow Rowell
#96. When you're dealing with subjective matters, there's no wrong or right answer, it's just, "What do we think is best for the show?"
Rob McElhenney
#97. I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
Charles M. Schulz
#98. Thirty years ago, we used to ask: Can a computer simulate all processes of logic? The answer was yes, but the question was surely wrong. We should have asked: Can logic simulate all sequences of cause and effect? And the answer would have been no.
Gregory Bateson
#99. You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business.
Mark Cuban
#100. If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -
Ani DiFranco
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