“I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I was wearing the finger out.” — Gary Lutz, “Devotions,” Stories in the Worst Way
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“Life seemed to be an educator’s practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.” — Russell Baker, “Back to the Dump,” The New York Times Magazine (1983-02-27)
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“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
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“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
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“It is a good practice to always apologize, except when you have done something wrong.” — Nassim Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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“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
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“Just because things hadn’t gone the way I had planned didn’t necessarily mean they had gone wrong.” — Ann Patchett, What now?
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“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
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“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” — Ken Robinson, Do schools kill creativity?
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“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
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