“The beliefs about right and wrong which guide our actions in dealing with men in society, and the beliefs about physical nature which guide our actions in dealing with animate and inanimate bodies, these never suffer from investigation; they can take care of themselves, without being propped up by ‘acts of faith,’ the clamour of paid advocates, or the suppression of contrary evidence.” — William Kingdon Clifford, The Ethics of Belief
“History is full of people who thought they were right — absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt.” — John D. Barrow, Pi in the Sky
“The most dangerous people are those that are right for the wrong reasons.” — Alden Nowlan, “Some Thoughts on Pornography,” The Realist (November 1958)
“The fact that we are different doesn’t mean that one of us is wrong — it just means that there’s a different kind of right.” — Faith Jegede
“The fact that we are different doesn’t mean that one of us is wrong — it just means that there’s a different kind of right.” — Faith Jegede, What I’ve learned from my autistic brothers
“Resist our tendencies to make ‘right’ or ‘true’ that which is merely familiar, and ‘wrong’ or ‘false’ that which is only strange.” — Robert Kegan, In Over Our Heads
“I never knew but one person who had a passion for truth — and only one who had the same regard to the distinction between right and wrong, that others have to their own interest.” — William Hazlitt, “Common Places,” The Literary Examiner
“Our own distinction of right and wrong is founded too much upon the immediate convenience of the community, and does not inquire sufficiently deeply into the ultimate effect.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters
“There was probably no impotence in all the world like knowing you were right and the wave of the world was wrong, and yet the wave came on.” — Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night
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