156 Always Wrong Quotes

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Famous Always Wrong Quotes

Being wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable. — Jack D. Schwager

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. - Henrik Ibsen

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. — Henrik Ibsen

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong. — Jerome K. Jerome

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it. — Malcolm X

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. — Charles Franklin Kettering

In economics, the majority is always wrong. — John Kenneth Galbraith

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong. — Robin Williams

There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong. — George Washington Carver

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong — Voltaire

Not everybody is right all the time. — Chamath Palihapitiya

Two wrongs don't make a right. — Roald Dahl

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong. — Samuel Goldwyn

Investors are right and wrong all the time for the wrong reasons. — Howard Marks

It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right. - Russell L. Ackoff

It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right. — Russell L. Ackoff

Short Always Wrong Quotes

  • Wrong must not win by technicalities. — Aeschylus
  • After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere. — George Bernard Shaw
  • For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. — H. L. Mencken
  • There is no right way to do a wrong thing. — Harold S. Kushner
  • There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. — H. L. Mencken
  • It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right — Mark Twain
  • I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. — Tallulah Bankhead
  • Watch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong. — Earl Nightingale
  • Two wrongs do not make a right. — English Proverbs
  • Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Top 10 Always Wrong Quotes

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong. — Ingvar Kamprad

People will always criticize. Stay upbeat and love yourself! There's nothing wrong with being different. — Krystal

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken. — Bertrand Russell

God has not always answered my prayers. If He had, I would have married the wrong man -- several times! — Ruth Graham

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong. — Thomas Kempis

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong. — Agatha Christie

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. — Marianne Williamson

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response. — Lawrence Summers

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. — Terry Pratchett

Always Wrong Image Quotes

Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong. - Charles Bukowski quote

Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong. — Charles Bukowski

Always wrong quote No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn arou
No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn around.

I Am Always Wrong Quotes

I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care. — Jean Rhys

Gender has always been considered a fact immutable. But we now know it's actually more fluid, complex, and mysterious. Because of my success, I never have the courage to share my story. Not because I thought what I am is wrong but because of how the world treats those of us who wish to break free. — Geena Rocero

I am very indecisive. I'm always afraid of making the wrong decision. — Katie Leung

Always wrong quote Its always wrong to hate, but its never wrong to love.
Its always wrong to hate, but its never wrong to love.

I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?' — Wayne Wonder

I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius. — Charles Fort

My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold. — Ed Miliband

Always wrong quote Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong.
Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time. — Pope Francis

My policy is I am always more than happy to say, "I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings." What I am not willing to do is take back what I said. Unless I am wrong. — Bill Maher

I am who I am and there’s nothing wrong with that. The days continue like they always have. They bring neither excessive desire nor despair. Nothing’s changed. Yet I’m overwhelmed with a sense of fulfillment. I’m right here. You’re over there. If I’m your savior, then you’re mine — Ryohgo Narita

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble. — LeBron James

You Are Always Wrong Quotes

You are absolutely sure that you’re not wrong. This feeling is something we should always be skeptical of. — Naval Ravikant

The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for. — Charles Bukowski

One product that you can never go wrong with is sunglasses because they are easy to misplace. I always get a couple of pairs every year. — Jessica Szohr

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. — Randall Munroe

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also. — Melissa Etheridge

No matter which path you are on, always do this: Question your path! If you are on the wrong path, change it; no matter on which mile of the road, change it! Till you find the right path, change all the paths! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones. — Harry S. Truman

When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents. — Andy Murray

I Am Not Always Wrong Quotes

Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path. — Anne Perry

Gentlemen, I want you to know that I am not always right, but I am never wrong. — Samuel Goldwyn

Even more precious is his Edward writes, I'm always saying that it is not the spirits who are getting it wrong; it's more likely that I am misinterpreting their messages. — John Edward

I am glad that though someone did me grossly wrong my final mark on this world is not one of countering hurt with more hurt but is one of love and friendship. We will always be known by our actions. Let them always be good ones. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong. — Patti Smith

I'm Not Always Wrong Quotes

I was never afraid to step out and make a decision. It might have been the wrong decision. I'm not afraid to tell somebody if I think they're wrong, as long as I know that I'm right. I would always try to make sure that I was right and then I'd voice my opinion. — Michael E. Thornton

I always get scared of traffic cops when I'm driving, like I freak out even when I'm not doing anything wrong. I still think they're going to pull me over and arrest me. — Leelee Sobieski

When I was a teenager, I was like, 'Something is wrong with me. I don't fit in. I'm not like everybody else.' So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened. — Noomi Rapace

It's not always like I'm right, and you're wrong. It's both ways. — Kevin Durant

There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone. — Patton Oswalt

There have always been people who have written me off. They're not going away. I use that to motivate me. I'm driven to show them just how wrong they are. — Ronda Rousey

I always want to push myself, even though I'm not in the entire thing. My friend Taylor says, "If you're the smartest person in the entire room, you're in the wrong room." — Selena Gomez

I know I'm still young and there's a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that's wrong, that I'm not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and that I'll always just be alone. — Lynne Rae Perkins

Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more. — Andy Warhol

I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new. — Maud Hart Lovelace

Lying Is Always Wrong Quotes

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway. — Robert Jordan

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so. — Richard Dawkins

I started off thinking Eminem was a flash in the pan, a kind of hip-hop Hanson brother. How wrong I was. Recovery is sometimes funny, sometimes terrible, always painfully honest. The matching of Eminem and Rihanna on "Love the Way You Lie" is pure genius. "Not Afraid" is pretty great too. — Stephen King

Just because a baby cries, I discovered, doesn't mean there's always something wrong. Sometimes babies wake up for no real reason. They just want to check if they're doing it right. "This is Sleeping, right?" "Exactly." "I just lie here?" "That's right." "Okay." Then back to sleep they go. — Paul Reiser

I was starting to realize the extent of the problem here: everyone is always lying to each other, and even when they're trying to tell the truth, it can still be misleading or wrong. In fact, it almost always is wrong from at least one angle. I mean, the truth is really just a better class of lie. — Frank Portman

You're Always Wrong Quotes

If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong. — Antonin Scalia

I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion. — Darren Aronofsky

Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly. — George Soros

You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you're sad, love what you've got and remember what you had...Always forgive but never forget, learn from your mistakes but never regret, people change, things go wrong, just remember, life goes on. — Unknown Author

Play on, when you're losing the game. Play on, cuz you're going to make mistakes. It's always worth the sacrifice, even when you think you're wrong. — Carrie Underwood

I don't think I was bullied. If I was bullied, I fought back or turned the other cheek. I have been put in a box, I guess: "Oh you're blonde, you can't play brunette." And I'm always like: "You know what? I'm going to prove you wrong, I'm going to make my hair brown." — Laura Bell Bundy

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if. — Duff Goldman

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong. — Catherine Deneuve

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important. — Steve Jobs

There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go. — Randall Munroe

You Are Not Always Wrong Quotes

People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever. People are bad. — Chris Rock

No matter how perfect & honest a person is, there will always be people to criticize. In other words, if everyone agrees with someone, there is something fundamentally wrong with what that individual is doing. If you are not criticized, you are not in the right track. — Abu Sufyan ibn Harb

When you leave people behind, and those people who are left behind, it's not their fault, it's the leaders of the institutions. There's always going to be an elite. You can have an elite in a communist society. It is the leaders, something went wrong, and the leaders collectively are responsible. — Jamie Dimon

If you don't find that people find you're easier to live with than you were before, if you don't find that your heart is feeling warmer toward others and if your negative emotions are not getting any better, then there's something wrong. That is always the touchstone of the Dharma practice. — Tenzin Palmo

Do not hold an idea tightly! There is always a possibility that what you believe might be wrong! Hold your ideas loosely so that you can easily get rid of them once you have realised that they are wrong! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

People say the customer is always right, but you know what - they're not. Sometimes they are wrong and they need to be told so. — Sayings

I'm Always Wrong Quotes

I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right. — Diane Keaton

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved. — Walt Disney

When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, I'm going to prove you wrong! — Picabo Street

However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, 'I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.' — Amy Poehler

I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing. — Anthony Bourdain

I'm an only child. My mum and dad are six in each family. They're both twins, and they only wanted one. I always say to them though that they're lucky - it could have all gone wrong. — Luke Evans

I'm always amused that people zero in on one thing, and it's the wrong thing to zero in on, but nevertheless, the reason they do that is because the voice is what they know - the voice represents everything about the character, that's why. — Frank Oz

I probably have the worst wardrobe. It's the most ill-fitting with the worst patterns and colors and the most nipple rubbage. There's bad chafing, and it's always tight in all the wrong places. What's sad is that I'm kinda getting used to it. — Josh Hopkins

They don’t think “I care,” “I hurt,” or “I have feelings.” It just seems like I’m always “wrong,” always “selfish,” always “self-centered” and everything else that’s negative and destructive. — Beatrice Sparks

I'm always open for people saying I'm wrong because most of the time I am. — Prince William

Always Being Right Quotes

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones — John Lennon

Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be. — Ratan Tata

If something sucks, I've always been completely vocal about it, and I've been punished many, many times because of that. But I don't think I'd be in the spot I'm in right now if I wasn't me. I've always just been me. — CM Punk

It's always more important to be kind than to be right. - Rich Simmonds

It's always more important to be kind than to be right. — Rich Simmonds

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. — Abraham Lincoln

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. — Hermann Goring

I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now — Willie Nelson

Only small minds want always to be right. — Louis XIV

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you. — Oprah Winfrey

When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace. — Wayne Dyer

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More Always Wrong Quotes

There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t think there is anything wrong with beauty. It’s just what women think is beautiful can be different. And there can be a beauty in individualism. If there is a wart or a scar, this can be beautiful, in a sense, when you paint it. — Jenny Saville

Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite the attempts by many to divide blacks and the gay community with the argument that the latter are seeking some imaginary special rights at the expense of blacks. — Julian Bond

And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I believe that the way politics has been done in the country is wrong. It has always been based on alliances that don't have the well-being of the people as their first priority. — Nayib Bukele

Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go! — Zedd

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. — Russell Baker

We’ve all said stupid stuff. But if you go to prison every time you say the wrong thing, that’s a problem. We do need to have soft boundaries on what is and isn’t acceptable. There are always people who will say things that are in their time perceived as unacceptable. Sometimes these people end up being Galileo and sometimes they end up just being pricks. It is the price you pay for living in a free society. — Konstantin Kisin

Comedy is downstream of culture, so the job of comedy, in my opinion, is to always be responding to the things that are wrong with society in that moment. Most people say that the job of the comedian is to make people laugh, yes it is but is that all? I don’t think so. I think comedians should be saying: this is what the mainstream narrative is, and here are the holes in it. Comedians should be trying to take society forward, and they should be always pushing back against the mainstream because the mainstream is the authority. Whereas what’s happening now is that you have a culture where comedians are essentially buying into mainstream culture. They are the woke ones; they are the super-woke. Comedians are super-woke. I am massively hated by many people in the comedy world because I’m not. So I’ll have plenty to talk about – no problem there! — Konstantin Kisin

Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet. — Carlos Castaneda

The Illusion of Knowledge is strongly supported by the Illusion of Self, particularly the ego. We identify ourselves with our knowledge. We defend what we know and get offended when it’s attacked. Since what we think is true is often different for different people, the attacks become frequent. It becomes a constant struggle to try to defend an ego. Undress. Leave your knowledge open to attacks. Be wise. Define yourself by openness to those who contradict what you 'know'. Be an explorer, a seeker of the truth, always ready to admit being wrong in order to continue the quest. — Mo Gawdat

Keep true to the rare music in your heart, to the marvelous and unique form that is and shall always be nothing else but you. Keep to that and you can do no wrong, which I realize is easier said than done. — Mark Z. Danielewski

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order. — Alvin Toffler

In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays. — David Landes

A decision made from fear is always the wrong decision. — Tony Robbins

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. — John Tukey

I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am somewhat confounded by being told I need God, Jesus or a clergyman to help me to do so. — Nigella Lawson

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver. From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can “just forgive” the perpetrator. — Timothy Keller

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. — Richard Stallman

Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all. — Julia Quinn

I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong. — Michael Symon

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. — Peter McIntyre

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. — Milton Berle

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. — Ayn Rand

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise. In my experience, the people closest to the problems are often in the best position to see the solutions. The key here is to empower and not be the bottleneck. — Colin Powell

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