Top 100 Wrong Is Wrong Right Is Right Quotes
#1. What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions.
Abdul Kalam
#2. If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.
Frank Herbert
#3. Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.
Julian Baggini
#4. Blessedness, not material possessions, is the measure of right thought; wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought.
James Allen
#5. I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
Samuel Johnson
#6. Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.
Noah Webster
#7. The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.
Edith Head
#8. Hosting the Emmys is a challenge for me. I guess it's the equivalent of someone who needs to climb a mountain or jump out of a plane. It's that kind of thing, where this could go terribly wrong. And I love the feeling of when it goes right.
Ellen DeGeneres
#9. I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.
Daniel Radcliffe
#10. Societies that have condoned male cheating and condemned female cheating are simply male-dominated cultures. Cheating is cheating, no matter who is doing it. It's wrong.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#11. If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the great masters should approve it or the dealers buy it. They would be wrong.
Arshile Gorky
#12. Love is a beautiful thing, love can make you laugh, make you cry, make you do right or make you do wrong.
G. Legacy
#13. A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way
Vernon Howard
#14. Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.
Ronald Reagan
#15. What is right is the ultimate law and trumps the law of the land.
Bohdi Sanders
#16. Walk to the right direction, because someone might be following you! You have the right to go to the wrong direction if no one is behind you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#17. Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.
LL Cool J
#18. Your job isn't to judge. - Your job isn't to figure out if someone deserves something or decide who is right or wrong. - Your job is to lift the fallen, restore the broken, and heal the hurting.
Joel Osteen
#19. Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.
Jimmy Savile
#20. Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.
Ilsa J. Bick
#21. Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments of right or wrong, neither staying nor going. This, then, is the Great Way.
Huineng
#23. One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.
R. H. Tawney
#24. 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
#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. You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right - that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else.
Warren Buffett
#27. Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong.
Mahatma Gandhi
#28. I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.
Greta Garbo
#29. It is incorrect to assume that you cannot find any good in the point of view directly opposite yours.
Daniel Willey
#30. Love and hate, black and white,
Right or wrong, who is right?
Some smoke joints to anoint their brain
To the vanishing point ... so they won't go insane.
Pharoahe Monch
#31. Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
P. J. O'Rourke
#32. Telling someone they're wrong is not the same as leading or inspiring them to do what's right.
Andy Stanley
#33. Doing the right thing irl (in real life) or online is good netiquette, but it is not always easy.
David Chiles
#34. To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.
David Dudley Field II
#35. I have been asked this question over and over again: 'Dr. Jeremiah, do you think God is finished with America?' But that is the wrong question. The right question is: 'Is America finished with God?'
David Jeremiah
#36. Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.
Jean Rostand
#37. No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
Elie Wiesel
#38. The chance you give the wrong guy who is run across with you at the right time, unless you don't give a chance the right guy who is run across with you at the wrong time, only you will always be upset
Anton Chekhov
#39. Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong ...
James Whistler
#40. I believe that in a way, sadness is happiness for there can be no wrong without right, no light without dark, no success without failure, no relief without pain, no love without hatred and no Snow White without the evil queen.
Girl234
#41. All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty ... Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.
Prince William
#42. No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.
H.L. Mencken
#43. For every child who wants to be accepted wholly and loved unconditionally, there are others who simply want to be accepted for who they are, even if they receive only a fraction of love. I don't think one cancels out the other. I don't believe that there is any right or wrong ... we simply coexist.
Natsuki Takaya
#44. Australia is filled with roundabouts and everyone drives on the wrong side of the road. In the end we decided to split up the work and I feverishly watched the GPS and yelled, Left! Right! ROUNDABOUT!
Jenny Lawson
#45. Fear is the devil's most powerful tool because he can't always convince a good man to do wrong, but he can paralyze his will with fright, keeping a good man from doing what is right. It eventually results in the same end.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#46. I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.
Bruce Willis
#47. The five basic tenets of Islam continue onto the sixth for me. Huquq-ul-Ibaad, or humanitarianism. That it is not proclaimed as obligatory has deeper meaning; as right or wrong are left to human initiatives, its importance would be lost if forced.
-Edhi, A Mirror To The Blind
Tehmina Durrani
#48. Everybody wants to be a winner. Winning for you is everything, right? Wrong, winning is the only thing!
Snoop Dogg
#49. This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.
Lars Ulrich
#50. Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.
Plato
#51. I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#52. The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better.
Russell L. Ackoff
#53. I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.
Etgar Keret
#54. I'm sayin' that I care about you, I do it deeply and I have for a really fuckin' long time. We're gonna explore this and I hope to God the feelin' I got is not wrong because I tried time and again to make it feel wrong but all it ever felt was right.
Kristen Ashley
#55. As Edward Glaeser put it, 'Thoreau was wrong. Living in the country is not the right way to care for the Earth. The best thing that we can do for the planet is build more skyscrapers.
Matt Ridley
#56. Good girls earn good things." She let my jaw go, her eyes going beyond me toward Benny's house, then coming back to me. "Let yourself have good things." "It's not right," I told her quietly. "Know one thing on God's beautiful earth, and that is" - she leaned into me - "love is never wrong.
Kristen Ashley
#58. There is no right or wrong behavior. The only meaningful choice is between fear and love.
Gerald Jampolsky
#59. But sometimes it doesn't matter whether someone is right or wrong. Sometimes you just have to love them when they need you.
Laurel Snyder
#60. If a stock doesn't act right don't touch it; because, being unable to tell precisely what is wrong, you cannot tell which way it is going. No diagnosis, no prognosis. No prognosis, no profit.
Edwin Lefevre
#61. Goods gone bad, but right is wrong, and I don't know which side I'm on lately.
Ray Davies
#62. When the vision becomes right [correct], one sees only his own faults and when the vision is wrong [incorrect], he sees others at fault.
Dada Bhagwan
#63. It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.
Aristotle.
#64. Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will not investigate, and if you think it wrong, the church will investigate you.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#65. There is a right way to pray and a wrong way to pray!
Paul Silway
#67. We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.
Robert Kennedy
#68. There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.
Lisa Randall
#69. Gut reaction is not always God's path. What feels right at the moment has nearly led me down some wrong avenues.
Cindy McCormick Martinusen
#70. I can't tell which direction is right or wrong anymore, but I know I want to stay.
Alexandra Bracken
#71. Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is ... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.
Donna Ball
#72. Mongers have been able to convince otherwise intelligent people that wrong is right, discrimination is appropriate, and division is unifying. It is among the most frightening and dangerous of their abilities." And
April White
#73. There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily life. Without it the world grows grey.
D.H. Lawrence
#74. Then "wrong" is right, and "right" is wrong! Yet I'll tell you this, to help you out of your dilemma: believe nothing I say. Simply live it. Experience it. Then live whatever other paradigm you want to construct. Afterward, look to your experience to find your truth.
Neale Donald Walsch
#75. You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!
Joyce Meyer
#76. You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to those understandings.
Frederick Lenz
#77. What if the idea of Mr. Right is completely false? What if there is no Mr. Wrong? What if every relationship-no matter how brief-contains a priceless lesson allowing you to grow and evolve into your grandest self?
Marie Forleo
#78. Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line
and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?
Jesse Helms
#79. Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.
Suzy Kassem
#80. The problem with people who have power is that they start thinking more about what it takes to keep that power than they do about what's right or wrong or just plain a bad idea.
Mira Grant
#81. Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code
a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people
or, rather, there aren't any right people.
B.F. Skinner
#82. An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.
John Tuley
#83. I've made a picture of the world. It may be right. It may be wrong. But for me it is very real ...
Henry B. Eyring
#84. Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
Bernard Baruch
#85. When it is easier to do wrong, it is harder to do right, but best to not do nothing at all.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#86. Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on.
Marshall McLuhan
#87. There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right.
Edward Abbey
#88. A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it's irrelevant. But to the right audience, it's a passion.
David Brier
#89. Was I wrong? Was I imagining a problem where there wasn't one? Of course my great aunt Maureen always said even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Suzanne M. Trauth
#90. Our best moral stories don't tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in one situation at one time. Readers, viewers, and listeners are supposed to extrapolate the moral meaning from the story. We're not supposed to have it handed to us.
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald
#91. If you have the choice between the right thing and the wrong thing, the right way is always less stressful.
Jennifer Lawrence
#92. to be right in the wrong direction may be wrong; what then is the wrong direction?
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#93. Stage fright is not a thing about 'Am I any good?' It's about 'Am I gonna be good tonight?' It's a right-now thing. It helps me. If I went out there thinkin', 'Eh, we'll go slaughter 'em,' I'm positive something would go seriously wrong.
Gregg Allman
#94. Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.
Friedrich Schiller
#95. Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#96. Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?
Laura Harring
#97. The Voice
There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you
just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.
Shel Silverstein
#98. What people in business think they know about the customer and market is likely to be more wrong than right ... the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.
Peter Drucker
#99. I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong,
Edward Snowden
#100. Never make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one you can abide by it.
Howard Hughes