Quotes with wrong

Quotes 281 till 300 of 536.

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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