Quotes with wrong

Quotes 361 till 380 of 536.

  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Carla Hall The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.
    Carla Hall
    American chef and television personality (1964 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Oscar Wilde The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mark Twain The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Harry Weinberger The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.
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  • William James The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Francis Bacon The images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • T. S. Eliot The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Douglas Adams The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Henrik Ibsen The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Aldous Huxley The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bob Saget The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Oscar Wilde The Niagara Falls? Simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary rocks.
    In Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Albert Camus The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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