Quotes with wrong-headed

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  • Boy George A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Alexander Pope A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Henrik Ibsen A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney A popular licence is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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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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  • Aldo Leopold A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • Joe E. Lewis Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • George Bernard Shaw After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Carlyle All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Clive James All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.
    Clive James
    Australian author, poet, translator and memoirist (1939 - 2019)
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  • Henry David Thoreau All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Arnold Bennett All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Buddha All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bill Bryson America is an outstandingly dangerous place. Consider this: every year in New Hampshire a dozen or more people are killed crashing their cars into moose. Now correct me if I am wrong, but this is not something that is likely to happen to you on the way home from Sainsbury's.
    Im a Stranger Here Myself (US) / Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Baroness Orczy An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
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  • Billy Wilder An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark, that is critical genius.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Susan Sontag Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Edward A. Murphy Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
    Edward A. Murphy
    American engineer, coiner of Murphy's law (1918 - 1990)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Carl Sandburg Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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