Quotes with wrong-minded

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  • Adrian Edmondson Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Andrew Wiles Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Laurence Sterne Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Heywood Broun Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
    Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Billy Beane Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Tupac Shakur Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
    Tupac Shakur
    American rapper and actor (1971 - 1996)
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  • Cass Sunstein Research shows that if people are talking and listening to like-minded others, they become more dogmatic, more unified, and more extreme. Personalized Facebook experiences are a breeding ground for misunderstanding and miscommunication across political lines and, ultimately, for extremism.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Blanche Lincoln Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • William Penn Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Marshall Field Right or wrong, the customer is always right.
    Marshall Field
    American businessman (1834 - 1906)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ann Bancroft Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
    The Nature of Space and Time (1996)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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