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Quotes including the word “wrong”.

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Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it is a sure sign that something is wrong.

Epictetus

If your brother wrongs you, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is your brother.

Ella Fitzgerald

Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Handel

Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right — two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

Hypatia

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

Ibsen

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

Amos Oz

Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved ones for their own good because we think we know better than them what is good and what is bad for them, what is right and what is wrong in their thinking.

Thomas Paine

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.

Rousseau

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Skinner

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

Solon

The best city is where those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

Igor Stravinsky

Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right

Jonathan Swift

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

Tagore

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.