Quotes with wrong-headed

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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Carl Sagan There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Mae West There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • George Orwell There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Aaron Sorkin There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • A. S. Byatt There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
    Possession (1990) Postscript, Page 50
    A. S. Byatt
    English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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  • Ayn Rand There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Oscar Levant There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
    Oscar Levant
    American Pianist, Actor (1906 - 1972)
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  • Ben Zobrist There have been nights I've stayed up late thinking about, 'What's wrong with my swing? What do I need to fix?'
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
    The Sabbath (1951) p. 3
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken There is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
    New York Evening Mail (16 November 1917)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej There is an English saying that the king is always happy, or, 'happy as the king' - which is not true at all. But I can be as happy as a king if all of you know what is right and what is wrong and cooperate to fix things.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Anne Stevenson There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Grover Cleveland There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
    Grover Cleveland
    American politician and lawyer (1837 - 1908)
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  • Eric Butterworth There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Shashi Tharoor There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.
    Shashi Tharoor
    Indian politician and writer (1956 - )
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  • Carl Stokes There is nothing fundamentally wrong with America's cities that money can't cure.
    Carl Stokes
    American politician and diplomat (1927 - 1996)
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  • William Hazlitt There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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