“I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute t…
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
—Cicero
Since the fall of man the earth has been a disaster area & everyone lives with a critical emergency. Nothing is normal. Everything is wrong & everyone is wrong until made right by the redeeming work of Christ & the effective operation of the Holy Spirit.
—AW Tozer
He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?
—Arthur Schopenhauer
“It is better to be approximately right, than precisely wrong.”
“You can’t avoid wrong decisions. But if you recognize them promptly and do something about them, you can frequently turn the lemon into lemonade.”
“You need humility to say ‘I might be wrong.'”
— Seth Klarman
“Being too far ahead of your time is indistinguishable from being wrong.”
— Howard Marks
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
—Voltaire
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
—William Shakespeare
There’s nothing wrong with loving your family or your nation, and this happens with everyone. But it’s only harmless as long as you do no evil to others because of your love for your family or nation.
—Leo Tolstoy
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
—Cicero
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
—Aldous Huxley
I should do wrong to sacrifice an opportunity of usefulness which is within my reach, in order to qualify myself for a station I am not likely ever to fill.
—William Wilberforce
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights
—Georg Hegel
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
—Carl Jung
To go wrong in one’s own way is better then to go right in someone else’s.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?
—Arthur Schopenhauer
They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice… That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you don’t have a dog–at least one–there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.
—Vincent Van Gogh
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
—Thomas Edison
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
—Charlie Chaplin
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
All things else being equal, the praying man is less likely to think wrong than the man who neglects to pray.
—AW Tozer
Since the fall of man the earth has been a disaster area & everyone lives with a critical emergency. Nothing is normal. Everything is wrong & everyone is wrong until made right by the redeeming work of Christ & the effective operation of the Holy Spirit.
—AW Tozer
Take care of yourself, and watch out for those you have to watch out for, for one does not die more than once, and nobody returns to put right the things done wrong.
—Michelangelo
Thus Dr. Scofield’s view of the Mosaic Law is rooted in a wrong view of sin.
—J. Gresham Machen
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.
—Charles Dickens