Quotes with wrong-minded

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  • Elie Wiesel No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Alexander Pope No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Annie Dillard No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Barbra Streisand Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Henry S. Haskins Normal is the wrong name often used for average.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 135
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Anthony Holden Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Blaise Pascal Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Adam McKay Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
    Adam McKay
    American filmmaker (1968 - )
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  • William E. Gladstone Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Terence Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • C. S. Lewis Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk.
    Mere Christianity (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Anne Perry Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Carlo Collodi Once upon a time there was... A king! my young readers will instantly exclaim. No, children, you are wrong. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood.
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • John Foster Dulles Once, many, many years ago, I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • James Watson One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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