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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. — Samuel Johnson

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. — George Orwell

All clear cut ideas turn out to be wrong. — T. E. Hulme

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all. — Edward De Bono

The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong. — Howard Dean

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones. — C.S. Lewis

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person. — James Hillman

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. — Thomas Jefferson

I believe in myself. There's nothing wrong with believing in myself. That's the whole idea, is that you can always become better. — Tiger Woods

So men and women were born into workers
Because ideas like
Right and wrong
Get outweighed by need
Anytime you've got mouths to feed. — Shane Koyczan

I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. — Peter Kay

If you have a truly big idea, the wrong technique won't kill it. And if you don't have a big idea, the right technique won't help you — David Ogilvy

I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination. — Henry Adams

I say, there's nothing wrong with a bit of moodling - you come up with the most interesting ideas that way" -Dill — Paige Britt

We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong. — Roxane Gay

Warmakers are often wrong ... Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic — David Cortright

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection. — Criss Jami

Everything in the media is fleeting. Don't get the wrong idea. Fame is when you're still the hot topic next week or even the week after. — Miki Aihara

It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine. — John Hughlings Jackson

I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong ... I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things. — Tom Waits

It's occurred to me that our human values, our ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, evolved in simpler times, before there were machines. — Herman Wouk

In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. Ideas too, I muttered. Ideas. — Louise Erdrich

Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore. — Steven Johnson

When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that idea will be wrong — Siegbert Tarrasch

Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of killing unwanted babies, it's just that the idea of letting women make a decision doesn't sit well with me. — Zach Braff

Obviously there are going to be a lot of skeptics. I only hope I can prove them wrong and give the idea of model-slash-anything a genuine chance. — Karen Elson

History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong. — Steven Novella

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development. — Oscar Wilde

If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong. — David Heinemeier Hansson

Most of the people will try to prove your right ideas as wrong, so share your ideas carefully or not at all. — Amit Kalantri

Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of "wrong" ideas. — Octavia E. Butler

Rumi says: Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing There is a field. I'll meet you there. — Elizabeth Lesser

A fervently believed idea, even if wrong, dies hard. — Hal Hellman

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong. — Richard King

Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot. — Ambeth R. Ocampo

Just because it's something original, eccentric or you're not used to it; doesn't mean it's wrong. — Sandra Chami Kassis

We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas. — Ludwig Von Mises

When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history. — Scott Belsky

If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong. — Wolfgang Pauli

Half the ideas in this book are probably wrong. — Matt Ridley

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure. — Ray Bradbury

If you do not listen to theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones! — C.S. Lewis

In the life of a nation, few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems. — Robert Reich

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet. — Joanna Russ

The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. — James Madison

In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if it is wrong, and thus it is not even wrong. — Michael Shermer

If you can get good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift. — Charlie Munger

When the customer is wrong it is not a good idea to tell them. — Garrison Wynn

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong. — Amartya Sen

Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how. — Gregory Bateson

It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I myself used to believe ideas didn't matter that much, but I'm very sure that's wrong now. — Sam Altman

What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. — Ronald Dworkin

In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy. — Ashleigh Brilliant

If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late. — Aaron Levie

You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong. — Alessandro Volta

Even though you're a member of the wrong party, you've got some great ideas ... — Lynn Westmoreland

It is better to agree with a "wrong" idea than to press a "right" idea on other people. — Frederick Lenz

Metaphorically speaking, a person's ideas must be the building he lives in - otherwise there is something terribly wrong. — Soren Kierkegaard

I don't come up with ideas, they come to me. I write them down and try to convey what's wrong with me to the audience as best I can. — Iliza Shlesinger

There is nothing wrong with being a woman, and doing ordinary things. Sometimes small deeds can show big ideas. — Judith Merkle Riley

A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true. — Arthur C. Clarke

I was doing what I thought I had to do. There was romance in the idea of being married. It was just the wrong reasons. — Rush Limbaugh

When you feel in love with an ex, it isn't that you still love him, but that you are simply stuck in the idea of what YOU did wrong. — Robin Lopez

It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it. — Robert Henri