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

Ignorance, Idea

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men, Bear, Oftener

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
Moliere

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
Barbra Streisand

Care, Sure, Name

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Good, God, Person

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

Time, Why, Less

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.
Murray Walker

Mistakes, Turn, Prophecies

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
Colin Powell

Unless, Commander, Otherwise

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.
Cher

Time, Girl, Mean

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
Samuel Goldwyn

May, Willing, Admit

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
Jack Lemmon

Hard, Try, Golf

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

Ignore, Living, Else

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
Thomas Fuller

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Charles Kingsley

Age, Past, Long

We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday.
Michelle Obama

Good, Sunday, Nothing

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.
Morrie Schwartz

Life, Important, Busy

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
James Madison

Power, Done, Interest

I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat.
Andy Rooney

Feeling, Enough, Eat

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

Economics, Majority

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.
Elayne Boosler

Tell, Married, Won

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
Billy Wilder

May, Together, Dark

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
Terry Pratchett

Mind, Might, Exercise

I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Work, Dirty, Politician

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
Muhammad Iqbal

Human, Ego, May

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.
Bo Bennett

Time, Saying, Avoiding

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

Two, Between, Rights

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
George Soros

Mistakes, Human, Once

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
Mark Hyman

Life, Beauty, Lies

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
James Russell Lowell

Truth, Forever, Scaffold

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
Steve Martin

Might, Gentleman, Dignity

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