Best 28 quotes in «being wrong quotes» category

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

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.

Granted it is easy at least comparatively to find pleasure in error when there's nothing at stake. But that can't be the whole story since all of us have been known to throw tantrums over totally trivial mistakes. What makes illusions different is that for the most part we enter in them by consent. We might not know exactly how we are going to err but we know that the error is coming and we say yes to the experience anyways. In a sense much the same thing could be said of life in general. We can't know where your next error lurks or what form it will take but we can be very sure that it is waiting for us. With illusions we look forward to this encounter since whatever minor price we paid in pride is handily outweighed by curiosity at first and by pleasure afterward. The same will not always true when we venture past these simple perceptual failures to more complex and consequential mistakes But nor is willing the embrace of error always beyond us. In fact this might be the most important thing that illusions can teach us: that is is possible at least some of the time to find in being wrong a deeper satisfaction then we would have found being right.

It is not about living idyllically in our similarities, but about living peacefully and pleasurably in our differences.

Just once I'd like to see you be wrong about something." "Oh, I've been wrong about plenty of things," Ander murmured, pulling her toward him and draping both arms around her waist. "I just don't like to advertise the fact.

There is an inexplicable sense of relief in being proven wrong, which perhaps can only be realized by either a scientist or a philosopher.

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.

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.

The Tudors hated to be wrong, and therefore never were.

We so want to be right and so trust that our desire to be right is something that God would surely bless. Yet the desire to be right comes with a price: the fear of being wrong. And so, in a counter-intuitive way, this focus on being right seems to be the porridge we settle for when we exchange our birthright because we're famished and fear that father won't feed us.

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

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

I don't really care about being right, I just care about success.

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

Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.

I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong.

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right.

There's no problem being wrong; it's a learning opportunity.

The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.

The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.

Value investing is predicated on the efficient market hypothesis being wrong.

When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.

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!

There are surely worse things than being wrong, and being dull and pedantic are surely among them.

Brilliance in a scientist does not consist in being right more often but in being wrong about more interesting topics.

Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat knows that he is always right. It's not vanity, you understand, it's built-in absolute certainty. They may sometimes be as mad as a hatful of spoons, but they are always definitely and certainly mad.