A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. — Muhammad Iqbal
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. — Thomas Paine
The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought. — Eknath Easwaran
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing. — Joseph Prince
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. — Hypatia
People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action. — Moshe Feldenkrais
Thinking doesn't guarantee that we won't make mistakes. But not thinking guarantees that we will. — Leslie Lamport
Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible. — Albert Ellis
The real enemy of safety is not non-compliance but non-thinking — Rob Long
Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts — Buddha
Freedom of belief is pernicious, it is nothing but the freedom to be wrong. — Robert Bellarmine
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act. — James Thurber
Short Wrong Thinking Quotes
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. — James Allen
Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. — Bryan Adams
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. — Buddha
Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity — Austin Osman Spare
Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions — Daniel Kahneman
People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things. — Erik Weihenmayer
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong. — E. O. Wilson
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. — Herbert Spencer
Top 10 Wrong Thinking Quotes
Our confession will either imprison us or set us free. Our confession is the result of our believing, and our believing is the result of our right or wrong thinking. — Kenneth E. Hagin
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. — Ella Fitzgerald
Right, wrong, good, bad, heaven, hell. I think that is the theme of my life. I think you have to know both in order to honestly choose one. So I'm familiar with both sides of the fence. — DMX
By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong. — Charles Wadsworth
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. — Charles Wadworth
Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong! — Chuck Smith
The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church. — Jose Rizal
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. — J. C. Watts
Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong. — Agatha Christie
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. — Jack Lemmon
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
Change Thinking Quotes
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself — Rumi
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.
We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know. — Carl Rogers
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think. — Noam Chomsky
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When thinking about life, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of anxiety can change the future.
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama
Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions. — Roddy Piper
Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds. — Buddha
Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself. — Leo Tolstoy
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions — Norman Vincent Peale
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
Vexation of spirit is a waste of time Negative thinking, don't you waste your thoughts Verbal conflict is a waste of word Physical conflict is a waste of flesh People will always be who they want And that's what really makes the world go round Unconditional love is scarce. — Damian Marley
The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people. — Colin Powell
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
Transform your world by transforming your internal state. Start by learning to let go of negative self judgment, and replace it with positive and loving thoughts about yourself. Be kind to yourself, and watch your external world change. — Anita Moorjani
Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation. — Robert H. Schuller
I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country. — Genevieve Gorder
You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong. — Alessandro Volta
The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world. — Paul Farmer
Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love. — Hafez
If things go wrong, don’t go with them.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. — Joseph Addison
E. O. Wilson, the Harvard entomologist and evolutionary biologist, is reputed to have said of socialism: 'Great idea. Wrong species.' Any system that is built on a false understanding of human nature is doomed to fail. — Gad Saad
Learn to go first. Introduce yourself. Ask them out. Host the event. Voice an idea. Tell people what you want. You’ll face more rejections when things go wrong, but you’ll get all of the credit when things go right. The world rewards those who go first because so few people do. — Mark Manson
Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
Silencing 'wrong' ideas will eventually destroy our ability to discover the truth. — Lex Fridman
When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind. — Donald E. Westlake
My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever. — Della Reese
I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. — Peter Kay
Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone, for that would be to wrong Him. — John of the Cross
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
Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating. — Richard Rohr
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. — Kahlil Gibran
If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through; be accepting of the fact that you are wrong, that the long drawn and heavy breaths of despair have at times been felt by everyone - that pain is part of the human condition and that alone makes you a legion. — Shane Koyczan
Hate no one, no matter how much they've wronged you. Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become. Think positively, no matter how hard life is. Give much, even if you've been given little. Keep in touch with the ones who have forgotten you, and forgive who has wronged you, and do not stop praying for the best for those you love. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind. — John Diefenbaker
I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that. — Clarence Thomas
I think it's wrong, ladies and gentlemen, for anybody to to be terrorized out of investigating anything. You have the right to read any book. You have the right to hear any speaker and that includes the vile communist that I'd just as soon gas - but you ought to hear him before we gas him. — George Lincoln Rockwell
The mind is trained from a very young age to think that life moves from one worry to the other or from one pain to another, never from one joy to another. If you feel there is something wrong with what you are seeing, then you should look back in at yourself because what you see outside is only a reflection of what is inside you. — Swami Nithyananda
The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong. — Ted Kulongoski
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
I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone. — Mills Lane
The Israelis are mistaken if they think we do not have an alternative to negotiations. By Allah I swear they are wrong. The Palestinian people are prepared to sacrifice the last boy and the last girl so that the Palestinian flag will be flown over the walls, the churches and the mosques of Jerusalem. — Yasser Arafat
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
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
When we fill our thoughts with right things, the wrong ones have no room to enter — Joyce Meyer
You have no idea how much of the inefficiency of mankind comes from thinking about the wrong-doings of others, and of ourselves. There is nothing more miserable than to feel that by some mistake in life you have not amounted to what you might have, and that your misfortunes all hinge on that mistake. — Emma Curtis Hopkins
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong? — Willie Nelson
I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it. — Tia Mowry
I think a lot of people feel like there’s something wrong with experiencing human emotions. It’s okay to feel stressed, angry, tired, or uncomfortable, those are the emotions that make existence beautiful. — Alex Hormozi
Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe. — Keith Johnstone
I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong. — Roy DeCarava
It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right... Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are? — Frank Zappa
If you approach a negotiation thinking the other guy thinks like you, you are wrong. That's not empathy, that's a projection. — Chris Voss
I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me. — Esperanza Spalding
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
I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. — Rachael Ray
I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something. — David Tennant
I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man. — Mila Kunis
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
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