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Quotes about Wrong


Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Meher Democritus

My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.

Meher Democritus

The multitude is always in the wrong.

Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

Anthony Jay

If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

Josh Billings

The reality of life is that your perceptions— right or wrong—influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.

Roger Birkman

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Malcolm X

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

J. P. Voltaire

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Clarence Darrow

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Clarence Darrow

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Jerry Gillies

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

Arnold Bennett

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

Mark Caine

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Dr. Dandemis

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Mahatma Confucius

...the ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.

F.a. Hayek

It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Lawrence Durrell

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.

Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!

Sir Walter Scott

Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.

German Proverb

The rule of the road is a paradox quite, If you drive with a whip or a thong; If you go to the left you are sure to be right, If you go to the right you are wrong.

Henry Erskine

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)

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