Incorrect Quotes

It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.

By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste.

Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.

The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed -- only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be -- then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number.

One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

I do admit there have been times when I have made a statement that was incorrect.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

I would say Politically Incorrect is my favourite right now.

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.

Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle.

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that;

it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.

It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.

My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.

As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.