Quotes with wrong-minded

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  • Vauvenargues Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Albert Einstein Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Pat Barker Murder is only killing in the wrong place.
    Weg der geesten (1996) 30
    Pat Barker
    British writer (1943 - )
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  • Carl Schurz My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • A. J. Foyt My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
    A. J. Foyt
    American auto racing driver (1935 - )
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  • Anna Sewell My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
    Anna Sewell
    English novelist (1820 - 1878)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bono My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ben Barnes My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Bob Hawke My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.
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  • George Bernard Shaw My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.
    You Never Can Tell , Act IV
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Napoleon: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. Giuseppe: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
    Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Robert E. Lee Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Baltasar Gracián Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Mark Twain Never do wrong when people are looking.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • M. Rutherford Never try to say something remarkable. It is sure to be wrong.
    M. Rutherford
    English writer (ps. van William Hale White) (1831 - 1913)
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  • Albert Einstein No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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