Quotes with wrong-headed

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  • G. C. Lichtenberg He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Abraham Lincoln If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • William Shakespeare If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Joseph Addison Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Josh Billings The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Thomas Szasz A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Voltaire A long dispute means that both parties are wrong
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Voltaire It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Thomas Paine 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.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Horace A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Charles Wadsworth By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Lord Mansfield Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.
    Lord Mansfield
    British barrister, politician and judge (1705 - 1793)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.
    Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 April 1864
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Nelson Mandela If you see something good, give a compliment. If you see something wrong, offer your help.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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