Quotes by wrong-headed

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G. C. Lichtenberg
German writer and physicist 1742-1799

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
Abraham Lincoln
American statesman 1809-1865

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If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet 1564-1616

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If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
Joseph Addison
English politician, writer and poet 1672-1719

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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.
Josh Billings
American humorist 1815-1885

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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
Voltaire
French writer and philosopher (ps. of François Marie Arouet) 1694-1778

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A long dispute means that both parties are wrong
Gilbert K. Chesterton
English writer 1874-1936

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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Baltasar Gracian
Spanish Jesuit, writer and philosopher 1601-1658

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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Voltaire
French writer and philosopher (ps. of François Marie Arouet) 1694-1778

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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Thomas Szasz
American psychiatrist 1920-

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A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Thomas Paine
English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor 1737-1809

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
Horace
Roman poet 65-8 BC

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A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
Charles Wadsworth

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By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian jurist, economist and politician 1891-1956

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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
Lord Mansfield
British barrister, politician and judge 1705-1793

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Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.