Wrong Ideas Quotes

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

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

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

Ideologies of personal liberty and free will cannot be imposed by machine guns. Wrong ideas cannot be cured by war or treaty. They are matters of mind and spirit.

It's not what we don't know that hurts us, people say. It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage.

To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be done by not being beaten in the argument with our critics. They complain that I come down too hard on their arguments. But wrong ideas have to be challenged before they influence public opinion and make for problems. Those who try to be clever at the expense of the government should not complain if my replies are as sharp as their criticisms.

I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

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

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.