Quotes
Quotes about Wrong
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility - it may be right but irrelevant.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits, Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast; And now the happy season once more fits That lovesick Love by pleading may be blest; For lovers say the heart hath treble wrong When it is barred the aidance of the tongue.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor." --infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor."--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
Bleed, bleed, poor Country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou thy wrongs, The title is affeered!
I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than the years; And should he doubt it, as no doubt he doth, That I should open to the list'ning air How many worthy princes' bloods were shed To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope, To lop that doubt, he'll fill this land with arms And make pretense of wrong that I have done him; When all, for mine, if I may call offense, Must feel war's blow, who spares not innocence; Which love to all, of which thyself art one, Who now reproved'st me for't--
If there is nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe.
In economics, the majority is always wrong.
They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.
It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.
You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself . . . that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
