Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.[Buckminster Fuller] Quote:It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.[George Patton] Quote:We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right.[GK Chesterton] Quote:It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion is anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Fantasy is a necessary ingrediant in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.[Robert Frost] Quote:Have you ever heard people say 'don't sweat the details'? Well, they're wrong: sweat the details. They have a name for people who sweat the details: millionaires.[Jerry Bowyer] Quote:Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.[Mark Twain] Quote: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?[Annie Dillard] Quote:A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.[Thomas Paine] Quote:It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:I made a wrong mistake.[Yogi Berra] Quote:Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.[George Carlin] Quote:An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.[Thomas Edison] Quote:To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.[Groucho Marx] Quote:'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'[GK Chesterton] Quote:People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.[Russell Baker] Quote:Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.[Groucho Marx] Quote:No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.[Albert Einstein] Quote:You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.[Henry Ford] Quote:It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. [Herb Caen] Quote:You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain. [Jeff Melvoin] Quote:If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong. [Arthur C. Clarke] Quote:The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. [Barbara Hall] Quote:To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. [Joseph Chilton Pearce] Quote:If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? [Heinrich Heine] Quote:The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore. [Robert J. Sawyer] Quote:When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. [Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. [Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober." [G. K. Chesterton] Quote:I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. [Bertrand Russell] Definitions of: wrongDefinition: imp. of Wring. Wrung.Definition: In a wrong manner; not rightly; amiss; morally ill; erroneously; wrongly. Definition: To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure. Definition: To impute evil to unjustly; as, if you suppose me capable of a base act, you wrong me. |
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