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Quotes about Wrong


I haven't been wrong since 1961, when I thought I made a mistake.

Bob Hudson

If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

No matter how far you've gone down the wrong road, turn back.

Turkish proverb

A person determined never to be wrong won't likely accomplish much.

Ken Wisdom

There is no right way to do wrong.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Shakespeare

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

John G. Diefenbaker

There is no right way to do wrong.

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

Dandemis

A strange form of self-indulgence! There are times when I would be wronged and cheated, that I may laugh at the expense of those who think I do not know I am being wronged and cheated.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Dandemis

Most people reach the top of the ladder of success only to find it is leaning against the wrong wall.

It is better to be roughly right than to be precisely wrong.

John Maynard Keynes

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Dorothy Nevill

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.

Thomas Jefferson

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Dorothy Nevill

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Jane Austen

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Samuel Johnson

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Thomas Jefferson

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.

G.K. Chesterton

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Charles Wadsworth

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

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