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  • Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish born in a deep shallowed pool. Wondering and restless, longing to reach out, they think about the world outside. They invent ingenious speculations and myths about the origin of the confining waters, of the sun and the sky and the stars above , and the meaning of their own existence. But they are wrong, always wrong because the world is too remote from ordinary experience to be merely imagined.

  • Experience teaches us that when "everyone" comes to the same conclusion, that conclusion is just about always wrong.

    David Dreman (1998). “Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation”, p.252, Simon and Schuster
  • The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.

    Heaven   Doe   Crowds  
  • Socialism is always wrong.

  • Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

  • The generally accepted view is that markets are always right -- that is, market prices tend to discount future developments accurately even when it is unclear what those developments are. I start with the opposite view. I believe the market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.

    George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons
  • If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong.

  • If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

    Swim   Wicked   Atheism  
  • Market prices are always wrong.

    George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons
  • The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.

    Art   Eye   Acting  
  • Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite the attempts by many to divide blacks and the gay community with the argument that the latter are seeking some imaginary special rights at the expense of blacks.

    Gay   Rights   America  
  • So often in my life I've been with people and shared beautiful moments like travelling or staying up all night and watching the sunrise, and I knew it was a special moment, but something was always wrong. I wished I'd been with someone else. I knew that what I was feeling - exactly what was so important to me - they didn't understand.

  • Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong.

    Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”
  • After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.

  • They don’t think “I care,” “I hurt,” or “I have feelings.” It just seems like I’m always “wrong,” always “selfish,” always “self-centered” and everything else that’s negative and destructive.

    Hurt   Selfish   Thinking  
    Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
  • Those not present are always wrong.

  • There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.

    Keynote Address to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 28 February 2009, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.
  • It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

    Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.76, Macmillan
  • You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

    "Winter's Heart". Book by Robert Jordan, 2000.
  • It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony
  • The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

    Brother   Truth   People  
    "What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West". Book by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2004.
  • Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

    Charles Dickens (1868). “Little Dorrit”, p.758, Kartindo.com
  • Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

    Thinking   May   Imagine  
    Agatha Christie (1943). “Triple Threat: Exploits of Three Famous Detectives: Hercule Poirot, Harley Quin and Tuppence”
  • It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

  • Trading has taught me not to take the conventional wisdom for granted. What money I made in trading is testimony to the fact that the majority is wrong a lot of the time. The vast majority is wrong even more of the time. I've learned that markets, which are often just mad crowds, are often irrational; when emotionally overwrought, they're almost always wrong.

    Mad   Majority   Crowds  
  • You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.

  • Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted suicide and euthanasia.

  • One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

  • The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all the other things we know. That's why it's almost always wrong to seek the "real meaning" of anything. A thing with just one meaning has scarcely any meaning at all.

    Real   Mean   Secret  
  • Don't make decisions by majority vote. The majority is almost always wrong.

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