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  • #1
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

  • #2
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
    Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

  • #3
    Chuck Klosterman
    “Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.”
    Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

  • #4
    Chris Heimerdinger
    “There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.”
    Chris Heimerdinger, Gadiantons and the Silver Sword

  • #5
    Alain de Botton
    “One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.”
    Alain de Botton

  • #6
    Leo Tolstoy
    “It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.”
    Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

  • #7
    Stephen Hunt
    “Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”
    Stephen Hunt, The Court of the Air

  • #8
    Jodi Picoult
    “Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.”
    Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

  • #9
    Steve Maraboli
    “Do what you think is right. Don't let people make the decision of right or wrong for you.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #10
    Robert Bloch
    “Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.”
    Robert Bloch

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.”
    Mark Twain, What is Man?

  • #12
    Jeanette Winterson
    “He: What’s the matter with you?

    Me: Nothing.

    Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, "but there was nothing the matter with her.”
    Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries

  • #13
    “... In love, everyone does things that hurt the other person, so there really is no "Right" and "Wrong". You just have to decide what you're willing to forgive”
    Yvonne Wood, Dead Beautiful

  • #14
    Toba Beta
    “It's sometimes funny to watch some people doing
    something the wrong way but doing it confidently.
    Even more funny, they succeeded.”
    Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

  • #15
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea

  • #16
    Ayn Rand
    “There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. ”
    Ayn Rand

  • #17
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

  • #18
    Christopher Buckley
    “That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.”
    Christopher Buckley

  • #19
    “There's a hard life for every silver spoon.
    There's a touch of gray for every shade of blue.
    That's the way I see life.
    If there was nothing wrong...
    Then there'd be nothing right.”
    Shinedown, Shinedown - The Sound of Madness

  • #20
    Karl Lagerfeld
    “Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.”
    Karl Lagerfeld

  • #21
    Tallulah Bankhead
    “I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.”
    Tallulah Bankhead

  • #22
    “Even if toxic people are right about what is "good," they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.”
    John L. Lund, How to Hug a Porcupine: Dealing With Toxic & Difficult to Love Personalities

  • #23
    Elmore Leonard
    “Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That's what most of my characters are like.”
    Elmore Leonard

  • #24
    John Maynard Keynes
    “It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
    John Maynard Keynes

  • #25
    “Well, I'm stubborn and wrong, but at least I know it.”
    Vanessa Carlton

  • #26
    George Orwell
    “But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #27
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.”
    Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation V-VII

  • #28
    Seth Godin
    “The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.”
    Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

  • #29
    Mary Balogh
    “Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?”
    Mary Balogh, The Devil's Web



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