Wrong Ideas Quotes

• One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring clean... It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came from under his workbench as he swept. Beginnings of creatures, bits that looked useful but had seemed wrong, ideas he'd mislaid and forgotten... There was even a tiny lump of sun. He scratched his head. What could be done with all this rubbish?

  Ted Hughes

  Spring, Ideas, Giving

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• Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon

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• We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work, although, there has been in these days, some interest in this kind of thing.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Funny, Work, Writing

  "The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics". Richard P. Feynman's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1965.

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• Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.

  Basmah bint Saud

  Country, Religious, Men

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• In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Growing Up, Ideas, Democracy

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• In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them: but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all.

  John Locke

  Lying, Ideas, Differences

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.100

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• The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it:; once you can honestly say, "I don't know", then it becomes possible to get at the truth.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Ideas, Long, Niche

  "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 18, p. 230, 1985.

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• If you can get good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.

  Charlie Munger

  Ideas, Destroying, Great Gifts

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• Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Mean, Idols

  "Erica Jong talks sex at 73". Interview With Danielle Berrin, jewishjournal.com. October 15, 2015.

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• It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it.

  Robert Henri

  Ideas, Masters, Persons

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be done by not being beaten in the argument with our critics. They complain that I come down too hard on their arguments. But wrong ideas have to be challenged before they influence public opinion and make for problems. Those who try to be clever at the expense of the government should not complain if my replies are as sharp as their criticisms.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Clever, Winning, Government

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• I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.

  Enid Blyton

  Mean, Ideas, People

  Enid Blyton (2015). “Naughtiest Girl Collection 1 (books 1-3)”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• Garret Swopes was a lot like a hot gay friend only he wasn't gay, which was too bad because then I could tell him how hot he was without him getting the wrong idea.

  Darynda Jones

  Gay, Ideas, Hot

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.35, Macmillan

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• My idea is, that if capital and labor are left alone they will mutually regulate each other. People who think they can regulate all mankind and get wrong ideas which they believe to be panaceas for every ill cause much trouble to both employers and employees by their interference.

  Jay Gould

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  "Jay Gould : A Character Sketch" by William T. Stead, February 1893.

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• Everything in the media is fleeting. Don't get the wrong idea. Fame is when you're still the hot topic next week or even the week after.

  Miki Aihara

  Media, Next Week, Ideas

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• For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged as mistress of herself. For her cradle to her grave she is another's. We do indeed need and demand the other rights of which I have spoken, but let us first obtain OURSELVES.

  Ernestine Rose

  Women, Lying, Ideas

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river flows all kinds of dirt, filth flows into it, but when it meets the sea it becomes the sea. In the same way you have to become that. To become the sea what you have to do is to forget all these tributaries which were coming into you, and all these wrong ideas which came to you.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lacklustre, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward.

  Clayton Christensen

  Business, Ideas, Process

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• I won't look it in the eye. As soon as I do, I get scared. You gotta walk the plank at some point, but at first you gotta put blinders on or you'll overthink things. I think it's dangerous, by the way, to do a lot of talks about your art, to do so much talking and so little making. You get the wrong idea about yourself.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Art, Eye, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life , given to search for truthand to helping people, and realization makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas .

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ideas, Goal, People

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• It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Thinking, Civilization, Ideas

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”

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• I try to wait until things set up just right before I take a trade. Then, when I'm ready to take the trade, I slowly count to ten before I pick up the phone. It's better to have the wrong idea and good timing than the right idea and bad timing.

  Linda Bradford Raschke

  Ideas, Phones, Waiting

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• Some people get the wrong idea, you know. If you're quiet and you're just not the most gregarious person, that you're like.. I don't know, self-involved, rude possibly, frigid. I get that a lot from people who don't know me, like online all you guys think I never smile, ever. It's not true. I do smile sometimes.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, Ideas, Self

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• War may claim for itself the power to destroy and to clear the ground. It can never construct or create. It is not the means by which ideals are imposed. There is ultimately no way of combating a wrong idea but the setting forth of a right one.

  Maude Royden

  War, Mean, Ideas

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• If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.

  Stephen Chow

  Successful, Ideas, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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