People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.
Noel Coward

There's nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell.
Stephen Colbert

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
George Santayana

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Theodor Geisel

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Benjamin Disraeli

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.
Bertolt Brecht

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
Rita Mae Brown

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
Bertrand Russell

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
William James

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
William James

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
E. Stanley Jones

In economics, the majority is always wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
John Kenneth Galbraith

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
Virgil

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.
James Carville

I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.
Richard Pryor

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.
Howard Gardner

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
Joe E. Lewis