We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.
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We can never be right, we can only prove we're wrong.
It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.
Being right does not always bring satisfaction,
So try to be wrong.
Try to disprove your beliefs.
Never believe something on faith.
Prove it or disprove it.
While other people have one idea that they think might work, you will have thousands you can prove didn’t work, and one you couldn’t make fail.
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if you can’t prove something wrong, you can’t really prove it right either.
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
It is the seeming contradiction that we must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong.
Since nobody's perfect, we need resistance to test our ideas.
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View PlansWhenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
386. — No people are more often wrong than those who will not allow themselves to be wrong.
There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right.
Instead of striving for certainty, we should be in constant search of doubt: doubt about our own beliefs, doubt about our own feelings, doubt about what the future may hold for us unless we get out there and create it for ourselves. Instead of looking to be right all the time, we should be looking for how we’re wrong all the time. Because we are.
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The trouble is that most people want to
be right. The very best people, however,
want to know if they’re right
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