When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
If you think your critics are wrong, prove it. If you think your haters are wrong, prove it. If you think you're right, prove it. Results have historically been the best way to prove you're right. — Patrick Bet-David
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. — Albert Einstein
I’m known for proving people wrong. Remember that. — Cardi B
We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. — George Orwell
A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held. — Georg Cantor
Being wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable. — Jack D. Schwager
A long dispute means that both parties are wrong — Voltaire
Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible. — Archimedes
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
Being wrong brings the opportunity for growth. — Mark Manson
The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone. — Soren Kierkegaard
Being wrong opens us up to the possibility of change. — Mark Manson
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Being right keeps you in place, being wrong forces you to explore. — Steven Johnson
Short Proven Wrong Quotes
Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are? — A.J. Ayer
We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong — Gregory Bateson
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong. — E. O. Wilson
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived. — Vernon Howard
A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong. — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right. — Friedrich Nietzsche
An ounce of proof is worth a ton of assertions. — American Proverbs
Listen, I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again. — Dana White
If things go wrong, don’t go with them.
Proved Them Wrong Quotes
No matter how many times people try to criticize you, the best revenge is to prove them wrong. — Zayn Malik
When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong. — Condoleezza Rice
I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong. — Derek Jeter
Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road. Turn around.
They said you could not make it. Prove them wrong. — Jon Jones
In every position that I've been in, there have been naysayers who don't believe I'm qualified or who don't believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong. — Sonia Sotomayor
I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong — Paul Scholes
Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right.
Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance. — Tom Hiddleston
The people who put you down don't have to stop you from chasing your dreams. Stand up, and prove them wrong. — Selena Gomez
I am pushed by my critics. I don't want to say I want to prove them wrong, but it pushes me on the field to play with a chip on my shoulder, and I play best when I have a chip on my shoulder. — Hope Solo
Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong. — Nicole Polizzi
Proving People Wrong Quotes
I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing. Keep proving people wrong and proving myself right. — Conor McGregor
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
Obviously, people are going to think what they think, and I've never had any problems proving people wrong. I do what I do. — Chris Jericho
No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn around.
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
Modelling isn't something I'm doing to prove people wrong. It's something I'm doing because it's what I want to do — Kendall Jenner
I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other. — Salman Rushdie
It is better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.
People have often assumed that for music to be emotionally powerful it has to come directly from a human hand, whereas I disagree with that, and enjoy proving these people wrong. This project is an excellent way of exploring that area more. — Squarepusher
I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator. — Bernie Siegel
The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to prove them wrong and yourself right but how to communicate from the heart. — Pema Chodron
If people want to pigeon hole you then just view it as an opportunity to prove them wrong and show that you are different to what they think you are. — Gordon Gee
Prove Them Wrong Quotes
At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong. — Evgeni Plushenko
There are always going to be skeptics. Prove them wrong. — Robert Kiyosaki
You get more out of trying to be every coaches best student than you do out of trying to be their biggest critic. Because the only way to prove your point of how bad they are at teaching is to sacrifice your long term success to be right about them. Better to be wrong and win. — Alex Hormozi
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesnt' become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
You can get good science out of stupid questions. If someone says the world is flat, maybe in proving them wrong you can calculate the curvature of the Earth more precisely. — Gavin Schmidt
All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right. — Cathy Guisewite
Everyone told me you can't build a major tech company in Canada. There just aren't enough investors or engineers or top-level managers. Each day, I'm driven to prove them wrong. — Ryan Holmes
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
I've heard about my size all my life. It makes you work that much harder. It's gratifying to prove them wrong. — Marcus Giles
...everyone was right about you- prove them wrong. — Daniel Handler
The problem was, I was labeled as trouble - so I was like, 'Trouble? I'll show you trouble. You want trouble, well here it is!' No matter what label they give you, the best thing you can do is prove them wrong. — Pink
I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge. — Bella Thorne
Prove Me Wrong Quotes
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance. — Marcus Aurelius
I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust. — Geronimo
I think it's my motivation and my dedication to prove everyone wrong whenever they tell me I can't do something. — The Miz
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward finding the answer.
The one experience that I hope every student has at some point in their lives is to have some belief you profoundly, deeply hold, proved to be wrong because that is the most eye-opening experience you can have, and as a scientist, to me, is the most exciting experience I can ever have. — Lawrence M. Krauss
Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care. — Terry Pratchett
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
I can see no hope at present of such a vaccine being produced... I have adopted a frankly defeatist attitude towards the problem of poliomyelitis and I hope that future developments will prove me wrong... No means of controlling poliomyelitis is at present visible. — Frank Macfarlane Burnet
No one had much faith in me because I was so young. They imagined a little brat with a flash-in-the-pan single. It was inevitable... Thankfully, I proved people wrong. — Billie Piper
I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong. — R. A. Salvatore
You Proved Me Wrong Quotes
You either trust someone day one until they prove you wrong, or you say, 'I don't trust you until you show me I can trust you.' I'm the latter. — Charlie Ergen
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured! — Anthony Burgess
When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going. — Cicely Tyson
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
One girl came up to me - I remember it so vividly - she said, "You're not fit to model socks." It crushed me. But at the same time, it made me unbelievably determined to prove everybody wrong and prove to myself that I could live an incredible life. — Karen Elson
They told me I would find it difficult to find work because of the way that I look and they weren't wrong. [laughs] I thought, "Well, I'll prove you wrong" because I genuinely believed that the world was a more diverse place than they perhaps viewed it to be. — Gwendoline Christie
You said I was weak. You said I couldn't do it. Thank you. You gave me everything I needed to prove you wrong. — Steve Prefontaine
May we ever choose the harder right, instead of the easier wrong.
I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong. — Sayings
When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind. — Sophocles
You put me in a race where there's a lot on the line, especially when people tell me 'you can't win', or 'you're too small', you tell me those things and I'll find a way to prove you wrong. — Mirinda Carfrae
I Proved You Wrong Quotes
You can be angry and pissed off at the coach and put your head down and pout. Or you can rise above it, respect the decision, but also know that you're going to go and work that much harder and prove everybody wrong. And that's the road that I chose. — Carli Lloyd
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
I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong! — Garth Brooks
What, I have actually loved it, because I've been underestimated every step of the way, and it's so exciting when you can prove them all wrong. — Oprah Winfrey
I've been fighting my whole career to show a different side and prove naysayers - not prove them wrong, because I don't think you should get your energy from negative people. — Ice Cube
You can turn the negative around and use it as a motivating force in your lie. One of my biggest desires has always been to prove certain people wrong - to prove to them I can do it despite what they think or say. — Tony Dorsett
Why aren't you more grateful when I prove how wrong you've been? — Ashleigh Brilliant
Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong. — Richard P. Feynman
I haven’t always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can’t emerge from a franchise and do well, that’s a very strong driving force. — Daniel Radcliffe
The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding. — Peter Joseph
Seeing the whales off James Price Point, mothers, babies, bull whales, seeing the count, going up into the thousands of these whales, the assurance that they will be ok with a mega port, mega ships and a huge factory ashore, is now clearly proven wrong. — Bob Brown
History has shown that in every age and in every field of human knowledge, many of the views which almost everyone accepted as true and never bothered to think about further, were in time proven completely wrong. — Philip Arthur Fisher
I cannot fear to be wrong because I never think I'm wrong until I am proven wrong. In fact, I am uncomfortable unless I am capitalizing my experience. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
To be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness. — Peter Joseph
The Bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives. — William D. Leahy
Once upon a time millions applauded and supported Adolf Hitler; ignorant masses often cannot see the simple truths and evidently they do not have the ability to see the very clear ends! The stupidity of the ignorant masses has been proven thousands of times in the history! Each time they follow the wrong leader and in the end fall in the cesspool! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you can delude yourself by believing that there is some kind of Santa Claus out there who is going to bail you out in the end, then it will help you get through. Even if you are proven wrong in the end, you would have had a better life than a non-believer. — Woody Allen
I look for a sign. Where to go next. you never know when you'll get one. Even the most faithless among us are waiting to be proven wrong. — Jillian Lauren
There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will. — Albert Einstein
Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes. — Karen E. Quinones Miller
A lot of people say Jerry Lee Lewis done wrong, but that has yet to be proven in the eyes of God. — Jerry Lee Lewis
I firmly believe the world will sort itself out in the end. Believe it with me. At least none of us will be around to be proven wrong. — Stuart Wilde
If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong. — Kinky Friedman
I have proven people wrong so many times. I was told when I was younger there is no chance I will make the top 100, top 50, top 30. Every time I have proven them wrong. It's kind of nice. — Caroline Wozniacki
There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. — John Langdon-Davies
Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong. — Donald Johanson
If all that you see, do, measure and discover is the will of a deity, then ideas can never be proven wrong, you have no predictive power, and you are at a loss to understand the principles behind most of the fundamental interconnections of nature. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and wake up one morning in a world where the 21st century's J Edgar Hoover has the power to blackmail anyone in America. — Tim Lee
It seems that there's a constant humbling - I don't know if that's the right word - because things are disproved all the time with new discoveries, at least that's the way it feels sometimes in the layman's world. Like, people will make proclamations of something to be true, and then 50 years later that's proven wrong because there's something else. — Larry Wilmore
The United State has a net worth against which our debt is a joke ... we wrote in 2008 the United States is going to come out of this recession fast. The Europeans are going to fragment. The Chinese are going to be cremated. Why could we come out of it? Why has all economic theory been proven wrong? Because we're rich and we could afford it. — George Friedman
There's so many variables in comedy. Comedy is not this thing that's a performance like a play. It's really an interaction with every single person in the room. And if there's a weirdness in the room for any people, be it something the comedians did at the top of the set or be it the mixture of the people isn't right, something can go awry. So it's really great to see you proven wrong about someone. — B. J. Porter
It was rumored, in 1946, that the hangman in Nuremberg adjusted the nooses of some of the condemned to magnify the pain of suffocation. Such sadism was not called for then and is not called for now. But if fornication is wrong, there is no denying that it can bring pleasure. The death of Saddam Hussein at rope's end brings a pleasure that is undeniable, and absolutely chaste in its provenance. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage). — Charles Stross
I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life. — Charles Stross
I spent a lot of 2012 going around the country saying that President Obama was the most liberal and most incompetent president in my lifetime ever since Jimmy Carter. Now having witnessed the events abroad these last several days, to President Carter, I want to issue a sincere apology. It is no longer fair to say he was the worst president of this great country in my lifetime, President Obama has proven me wrong. — Bobby Jindal
You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. You think the goal justifies the means, even the vile means. You are wrong: The goal is in the path on which you arrive at it. Every step of today is your life of tomorrow. No great goal can be reached by vile means. That you have proven in every social revolution. The vileness or inhumanity of the path to the goal makes you vile or inhuman, and the goal unattainable. — Wilhelm Reich
Newton's theory is not 'not right', it just does not cover all distances. Contrary to popular belief, theories in science are not proven wrong, they are just replaced by more complete and convenient theories. To sound provocative, even the geocentric theory was never "proven" wrong, it is just not as convenient as the heliocentric theory, since it requires endless epicycles. — Nathan Seiberg
People always say a script will be 'brought to life in a magical way,' but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again. — Ginnifer Goodwin
Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older. — Randy Pausch
The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong. — Brandon Sanderson
Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way. — Rebecca Skloot
I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts. — Barbara Hambly
I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope... I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. Im back... Because now i know what I have to do now. I have to keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring? — Tom Hanks
I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again. — Steve Hamilton
I still doubt it will work." "You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day," Raoden said with a smile. — Brandon Sanderson
Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong. — Isaac Marion
But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment. — Jonathan Safran Foer
I chuckled to myself and kept walking. The Universe had proven Curran wrong: a person who aggravated him more than me did, in fact, exist. — Ilona Andrews
Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience. — Gregory Maguire
It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right. — Daniel Handler
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