#wrong thing

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#become #believe #credulous #danger #enough

Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#make #sometimes #things #us #wrong

We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going to be implemented Jan. 1, 2012, where they're going to begin to regulate dust. That's right, dust. It's called PM 2.5. That is focusing on the wrong thing. ↗

— Herman Cain

#called #dust #epa #example #focusing

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#get #involved #living #make #mind

You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#bowl #doctors #everything #football #football season

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#constantly #counteract #education #generations #inexorable

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#into #person #pours #puritan #righteous

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#need #predominantly #remote #schools #stressed

Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing. ↗

— Matthew Perry

#everybody #guy #much #says #thing