#wrong

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#energy #explain #explanations #genesis #i

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. ↗

— John Green

#labyrinth #life #suffering #wrong #death

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. ↗

— Josh Billings

#best way #convince #fool #him #his

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it. ↗

— Josh Billings

#forget #nobody #prophesy #remember #right

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#expression #geographical #speaks #whoever #wrong

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#happen #most #next #prophet #proved

There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you. ↗

— Jack Black

#divorce #each #even #fact #feel

Half-jokingly, I asked what was wrong with me. So we made a deal: I would run his biological research provided I had a free hand to run my new project. ↗

— James W. Black

#biological #deal #free #free hand #had

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. ↗

— William Blackstone

#english #fundamental #fundamental principle #king #necessary

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong. ↗

— Mo Udall

#find #something #wrong #you