Always Wrong Quotes - Page 2

• Don't make decisions by majority vote. The majority is almost always wrong.

  Adrian Rogers

  Majority Vote, Decision, Majority

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• Those not present are always wrong.

  Philippe Nericault Destouches

  Human Condition

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• It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

  Chris Patten

  Problem, Said, Difficult

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• There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.

  Julian Baggini

  Ifs, Disagree, Fanaticism

  "The dangers of a closed mind" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2009.

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• The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.

  Jim Rogers

  Business, Finance, Fallacy

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• Rumor is not always wrong

  Tacitus

  Rumor

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• A monkey is a much better voter than a socialist. Statistically speaking, if we assume that there are two options to choose from: the "A" and the "B" - the monkey is voting randomly, so its wrong 50% of the time. The socialist, however - is always wrong.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Two, Voting, Monkeys

  Blog, November 7, 2008.

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• Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

  Noah Webster

  Power, Weakness, Insolent

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• However accurate or inaccurate the agency's numbers may be, tax law explicitly presumes that the IRS is always right -- and implicitly presumes that the taxpayer is always wrong -- in any dispute with the government. In many cases, the IRS introduces no evidence whatsoever of its charges; it merely asserts that a taxpayer had a certain amount of unreported income and therefore owes a proportionate amount in taxes, plus interest and penalties.

  James Bovard

  Government, Law, Numbers

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• I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.

  Charles Fort

  Taken, Science, Errors

  Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.185, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Country, Thinking, Rely Upon

  Jerome K. Jerome (2017). “Clocks: From "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow"”, p.3, The Floating Press

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• So often in my life I've been with people and shared beautiful moments like travelling or staying up all night and watching the sunrise, and I knew it was a special moment, but something was always wrong. I wished I'd been with someone else. I knew that what I was feeling - exactly what was so important to me - they didn't understand.

  Julie Delpy

  Beautiful, Night, People

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• One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

  R. H. Tawney

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?

  Robert Breault

  Office, Political, Trying

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• She didn't give George any too easy a time when she was alive. She was one of those semi-invalids – I believe she had really something wrong with her, but whatever it was she played it for all it was worth. She was capricious, exacting, unreasonable. She complained from morning to night. George was expected to wait on her, hand and foot and everything he did was always wrong and he got cursed for it. Most men, I'm fully convinced, would have hit her with a hatchet long ago.

  Agatha Christie

  Morning, Believe, Men

  "The Blue Geranium: A Miss Marple Short Story".

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• Abuse is always wrong. Some try to excuse it. Most perpetrators have a sense of entitlement, thinking their actions are justified. Ironically, their victims may also believe they deserve to be mistreated. Some will even defend their abuser, citing his or her earnest apologies afterward. But abuse in any form, for any reason, wounds both spouses. It's always sinful, and few things destroy trust in a marriage as quickly. Regardless of childhood pain or marital conflict, mature spouses learn to set limits so anger doesn't become abuse by frequency, degree, or duration.

  Rob Jackson

  Pain, Believe, Apology

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• The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

  Bianca Jagger

  Innocent Person, People, Innocence

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• You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

  Robert Jordan

  Lying, Knowing, Portions

  "Winter's Heart". Book by Robert Jordan, 2000.

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• Over the long run, the crowd is always wrong.

  Seth Klarman

  Running, Long, Crowds

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• Experience teaches us that when "everyone" comes to the same conclusion, that conclusion is just about always wrong.

  David Dreman

  Teach, Conclusion

  David Dreman (1998). “Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much worse jobs and suffer such indignities and hardships.

  Richard Flanagan

  Jobs, Pain, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Destiny, Men, Evil

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• After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.

  Harold MacMillan

  Long, Establishment, Conclusion

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• Market prices are always wrong.

  George Soros

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

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• As soon as we ask what faith is and what sort of mistreatment of faith causes doubt, we are led to the first major misconception about doubt-the idea that doubt is always wrong because it is the opposite of faith and the same thing as unbelief. What this error leads to is a view of faith that is unrealistic and a view of doubt that is unfair.

  Os Guinness

  Errors, Views, Opposites

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