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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
    tags: wrong
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  • #2
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
    tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong
    1603 likes

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

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  • #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
    tags: evil, good, inspirational, right, wrong
    129 likes

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  • #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
    tags: attraction, health, love, pathology, right, wrong
    478 likes

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  • #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
    tags: judge, right, wrong
    618 likes

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  • #7
    Stephen Hunt
    “Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”
    ― Stephen Hunt, The Court of the Air
    tags: time, wrong
    170 likes

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  • #8
    Jodi Picoult
    “Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
    tags: right, self-sacrifice, wrong
    163 likes

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  • #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
    tags: choice, conviction, motivational, right, self-empowerment, wrong
    165 likes

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  • #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
    tags: good, inspiration, right, true, wrong
    155 likes

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  • #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?
    331 likes

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  • #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
    tags: death, depression
    528 likes

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  • #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
    tags: forgiveness, inspirational, life, love, right, wrong
    166 likes

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  • #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
    tags: confident, fun, funny, succeeded, watch, watching, way, wrong
    102 likes

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  • #15
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea
    tags: gossip, right, truth, wrong
    207 likes

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  • #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
    tags: evil, right, wrong
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  • #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
    tags: side, wrong
    136 likes

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  • #18
    Christopher Buckley
    “That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.”
    ― Christopher Buckley
    tags: argument, humor, right, thank-you-for-smoking, wrong
    106 likes

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  • #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
    tags: life, music, right, shinedown, wrong
    51 likes

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  • #20
    Karl Lagerfeld
    “Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.”
    ― Karl Lagerfeld
    tags: art, clear, create, creativity, design, fashion-designer, icon, moment, right, stifle, time, wisdom, wrong
    142 likes

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  • #21
    Tallulah Bankhead
    “I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.”
    ― Tallulah Bankhead
    tags: right, wrong
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  • #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
    tags: compassion, healthy, relationships, right, toxic, wrong
    69 likes

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  • #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
    tags: psychopaths, right, wrong
    172 likes

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  • #24
    John Maynard Keynes
    “It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
    ― John Maynard Keynes
    tags: right, wrong
    210 likes

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

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  • #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
    tags: fear, lunatic, wrong
    128 likes

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  • #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
    tags: actions, justification, wrong
    191 likes

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  • #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?
    tags: wrong
    130 likes

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  • #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
    tags: right, time, wrong
    28 likes



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