Quotes with wrong-minded

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  • Barry Ritholtz The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Thornton Wilder The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.'' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wish
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Antony Jay The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
    Antony Jay
    English writer, broadcaster, and director (1930 - 2016)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Ben Wheatley The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they go, but there's nothing wrong with horror; there's nothing wrong with romantic comedies.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • Edmund Burke The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Billy Sunday The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Wilson Mizner The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Ben Okri The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Addison Mizner The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
    Addison Mizner
    American architect (1872 - 1933)
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  • Aharon Appelfeld The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
    Aharon Appelfeld
    Israeli writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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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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  • 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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