Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
Charles Horton Cooley

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
Bill Vaughan

I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is.
Jim Cramer

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.
Jim Cramer

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Charles Bukowski

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
Marilyn vos Savant

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
Carl Sandburg

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Thomas Carlyle

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Thomas Szasz

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
E. O. Wilson

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
E. O. Wilson

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Eugene V. Debs

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.
Mickey Rourke

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.
Chuck D.

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
Herman Melville

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian