It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.

I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.

I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.

There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right.

If a person makes a statement that you think is wrong — yes, even that you know is wrong — isn’t it better to begin by saying: “Well, now, look. I thought otherwise, but I may be wrong. I frequently am. And if I am wrong, I want to be put right. Let’s examine the facts.” There’s magic, positive magic, in such phrases as: “I may be wrong. I frequently am. Let’s examine the facts.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

That person who declares that there is always something wrong is always doing something to make things wrong.

If you give people a firm opinion, you run the risk of being wrong. Guess what? People remember when you’re wrong a lot more often than when you’re right. So the tendency is to include all the possibilities. It’s intellectually honest, even.

Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

And I am wrong more often than I am writing. And even then, I am often wrong.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

386. — No people are more often wrong than those who will not allow themselves to be wrong.

We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.