Being Wrong Quotes

Let's be honest about journalists: We find a lot of ways of being wrong.

E.J. Dionne Jr.

There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right.

For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly finding we were wrong and excitedly waiting for tomorrow to come so we can start over.

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.

Shannon L. Alder

Some people's theologies come across as blatantly wrong when weighed against what is revealed in Scripture. However God has mercy on those who may be wrong but genuinely seek understanding before seeking themselves.

To make mistakes or be wrong is human. To admit those mistakes shows you have the ability to learn, and are growing wiser.

Donald L. Hicks

To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong

And then I decided to be pro me. Be pro you to the end. No more cutting up myself and serving up myself like pieces of a pie for everyone's tasteless palates. And that doesn't mean you don't know how to say sorry; because being pro you means being pro growth and pro improvement. When I'm wrong, I know I'm wrong and I say that I'm wrong. And that's how I know I'm right!

When is it too right but too wrong to be right?

Dominic Riccitello

Pride is pride not because it hates being wrong, but because it loves being wrong: To hate being wrong is to change your opinion when you are proven wrong; whereas pride, even when proven wrong, decides to go on being wrong.

Knowing without loving is frankly dangerous for the soul and for society. You'll critique most everything you encounter and even have the hubris to call this mode of reflexive cynicism "thinking" (whereas it's really your ego's narcissistic reaction to the moment). You'll position things to quickly as inferior or superior, "with me" or "against me," and most of the time you'll be wrong.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.