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Quotes About Wrong

He's wrong he's so he's so wrong he's more wrong than an upside-down rainbow.
~ Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind.
~ George E. P. Box
Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.
~ George E. P. Box
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
~ Isaac Asimov
It is in the nature of science that once a position becomes orthodox it should be suggested to criticism.... It does not follow that, because a position is orthodox, it is wrong.
~ John Maynard Smith
You always need to find the balance in the science, but the balance to talking about evolutionary theory is not to talk about creationism, that's not a balance, that's misleading and it's just wrong.
~ Robin Ince
Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they're crazy** some are dumb, too, but that's another story.
~ Gregory Cochran
Vegans are always wrong, but damn pleased with themselves
~ Rasmussen
He could argue a case for anything, but that doesn't change the fact he's wrong most of the time.
~ Michael Monroe, Afterlife
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to be only sometimes right, than at all times wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
~ Abraham Lincoln
It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and wll ever to struggle.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Every gesture of retribution carries in it the risk of escalation. It is not an insignificant possibility that the morally right may result in the morally wrong.
~ Ágnes Heller
Our model of evil ... is Satan, not because he does the wrong things, but because he induces others to do the wrong things by persuading them that evil is right.
~ Ágnes Heller
The average person can tolerate being told something which he or she knows nothing about. (Which is why news is an effective advertising approach.) But the average person cannot tolerate being told he or she is wrong. Mind-­changing is the road to advertising disaster.
~ Al Ries
many of our current practices seem to be the wrong way around ... we seem to make church complex and discipleship too easy.
~ Alan Hirsch
It was a refinement of teasing, where you were never told why your answer was wrong.
~ Alan Hollinghurst
It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody things you are wrong.
~ Derek Thompson
A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.
~ Derrick Jensen
done for the last few days has been completely wrong, even though you did it with the best of intentions. This is the risk you agreed to take. There are always consequences." "Can I leave the baby with you?" she asked.
~ Diane Chamberlain
You should know how terrible a power belief is, especially in the wrong hands -- and how do you tell which hands are wrong? Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow.
~ Diane Duane
There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer