Being Right Quotes

“Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“I liked protecting people and things. I liked figuring out smart ways to protect people and things. I liked being right.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“The more a person needs to be right, the less certain he is.”
― Meir Ezra

“People who base their self-worth on being right about everything prevent themselves form learning from their mistakes. They lack the ability to take on new perspectives and empathize with others. They close themselves off to new and important information. It's far more helpful to assume that you're ignorant and don't know a whole lot. This keeps you unattached to superstitious or poorly informed beliefs and promotes a constant state of learning and growth.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“he didn't give a damn about being popular; he cared only about being right.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Aquitaine Progression

“Kelsier was right again. I wonder if he ever gets tired of that.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Nobody,
Nobody can be sure they're always right.
The ones who are fullest of themselves that way
Are the emptiest vessels.”
― Seamus Heaney, The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone

“All of us would like to have been born
Infallible, but since we knew we weren't,
It's better to attend to those who speak
In honesty and good faith, and learn from them.”
― Seamus Heaney, The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone

“We often favor feeling right, over being right.”
― Adam Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“The task of being right is a task the father perfects over time.”
― Ben Marcus, Notable American Women

“Sometimes the urge to be right can be very wrong for a relationship.”
― Charles F Glassman

“The easiest explanations are often the right ones.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“It's exhausting always being right.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Shadow in the Ember

“Most of us try to spend so much effort in being proven right that we get tired even before start working towards being better. Instead of looking at a logical solution to an issue the concentration shifts to proving our point, and in the process we end-up becoming an issue.”
― ShahenshahHK

“There are people who are always insecure, dissatisfied and looking for a conflict. Unfortunately, the only way to deal with them is to walk away cuz the battle they are fighting, is not with you or everyone else around them, it is within themselves. Choose peace over being right.”
― Nitya Prakash

“I don't believe in being safe, I believe in being right because you are not safe if you are not right”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Being caring is more important than being right.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Servitude is Sanctitude

“How are you supposed to believe right’s right and wrong’s wrong if everyone around you says the opposite? You’re supposed to think you’re smarter than all of them?”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Don’t let that nagging urge to be right be wrong for your relationships.”
― Charles F Glassman

“we listen to views that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Based on who they are and what they want and what they know, everyone is right. Every time.”
― Seth Godin, This Is Marketing

“Of course, she [Alice Hayward] was right. She always was right, though now and again she suspected, with a touch of exasperation, that John didn't always think so. But he generally let her have her own way, and that, after all, is what matters to a wife, especially is she loves her husband as much as she, Alice, loved her John.”
― Marie Belloc Lowndes, The Chianti Flask

“It was such a relief to be right even though you knew you only got there by trying every possible way to be wrong.”
― Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

“there are also deeper forces behind our resistance to rethinking. questioning ourselves makes the world more unpredictable, it requires us to admit that the facts may have changed, that what was once right may now be wrong. reconsidering something we believe deeply can threaten our identities, making it feel as if we’re losing a part of ourselves. rethinking isn’t a struggle in every part of our lives, when it comes to our obsessions, we update with fervour, we refresh our wardrobes when they go out of style, and renovate our kitchens when they’re no longer in Vogue. when it comes to our knowledge and opinions though, we tend to stick to our guns. psychologists call this ceasing and freezing. we favour the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt and we let our beliefs brittle long before our bones”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“part of the problem is cognitive laziness. some psychologists point out that we’re mental misers, we often prefer the ease of hanging on to old views over the difficulty of grappling with new ones”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“for them, forecasting the end of the world is quite routine, and, as believers in the afterlife, they expect to be able to bask in glory when their prophecies of doom are proven right.”
― Alex de Waal, AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet

“Everyone has a right to be wrong; it is only when you were persecuting, demonizing, and hating on those who were right all along that it takes something special to forgive. This is all the more reason for humility, for being patient with those who disagree with you: because it is you who might be wrong, and later, them proven right.”
― Criss Jami

“There is no pastime so engrossing as being in the right.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Of Cats and Elfins: Short Tales and Fantasies

“Lately my worst suspicions tended to be confirmed. I was getting things right in the worst possible way. My score was depressingly high.”
― Ian McEwan, Enduring Love