It's OK to be wrong. You learn from your wrongs. You don't learn from being right. If you're right, you already know it. If you're wrong, it's because you don't know about it, and you made a mistake.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
In politics its almost as big a sin to change your mind as it is to be wrong.
Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong.
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.
Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.
It is perfectly American to be wrong.
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.
I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.
There are few people who are more often wrong than those who cannot suffer being wrong.
You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you may ignore your most important findings.
People who begin sentences with "I may be old-fashioned but--" are usually not only old-fashioned but wrong. I never thought the time would come when I should catch myself leading off with that crack. But I feel it coming on right now.
I don't really care about being right, I just care about success. I don't mind being wrong, and I'll admit that I'm wrong a lot. It doesn't really matter to me too much. What matters to me is that we do the right thing.
It's tough never being right.
And I'm the type of person, if I ain't wrong, I'm gonna stand on that.
I don't really care about being right, I just care about success.
(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas.
As a true scientist, I have been proved wrong so many times that I'm very humble.
The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.
