Quote compilations are all the rage on social media, but most of them are full of quotes that are either inaccurate or simply wrong. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at some of the most famous wrong quotes and set the record straight.

The best wrong quotes

1. I have no knowledge of anythIng. I have no knowledge of any wrongdoIng. — Tom Brady

2. My grandmother really liked virgins. There’s nothing wrong with virgins, there’s a time and a place for that. I had other things on my mind… like Robert Plant. — Tori Amos

3. Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. — Terry Pratchett

4. The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining of consequences–of results. — Robert Green Ingersoll

5. Even if ninety–nine percent of what you discover is later proven wrong, it is the one percent that is right that matters. — Steven Magee

6. Our willingness and desire to be obedient to the teachings of Jesus is at the heart of our entire faith walk. — Sara Dormon, If You’re a Christian and Everyone Likes You… Something’s Wrong

7. Once you stay true to just having a good time and being honest to your fans and your audience, you can’t go wrong. — Nicole Scherzinger

8. If its almost right its wrong. Pay attention to your hesitation — Renae A. Sauter

9. I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it. — Oscar Wilde

10. Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. — Terry Pratchett

11. I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong. — Mickey Rourke

12. Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy. — Thomas Jefferson

13. I bought my kid an educational toy to help him make it through life. No matter how you put it together, it’s wrong. — Milton Berle

14. I grew up with the thought that I wanted to treat people the way I’d like to be treated, and I think if you do that, it’s pretty hard to go wrong. — Nolan Ryan

15. It don’t make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person’s conscience ain’t got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. — Mark Twain

16. The best way to Prove your critics wrong is to Improve yourself — Samuel Asumadu–Sarkodie

17. Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right but our country right or wrong. — Stephen Decatur

18. Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that’s so near how the conversation went, I’m going to call it truth. — Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days

19. No one has the right to do wrong, even if wrong has been done to them. — Viktor E. Frankl

20. From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron. — J. K. Rowling

21. That’s what getting old is: When you can no longer bear the consequences of being wrong. — Matthew Woodring Stover, Caine’s Law

22. Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life? — Oswald Chambers

23. That fellow seems to posses but one idea and That is the wrong one. — Samuel Johnson

24. Believing everything your child does wrong is entirely down to the company he or she keeps. — Paulo Coelho

25. I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself. — Winston Churchill

26. Our actions has ensured that we made headlines for all the wrong reasons — Oche Otorkpa

27. Lying on my bed, my brain cyclones with thoughts of men and boys and boys and men. All making the wrong choices. — S.M. Parker, The Girl Who Fell

28. A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow. — J. B. Priestley

29. The most important thing is, Do you have the courage to admit that you’re wrong? And do you change? The most important thing to me as a CEO is that we keep the courage. — Tim Cook

30. There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I’m afraid it’s heading in the wrong direction. — Ogden Nash

31. There’s nothing wrong with a woman being comfortable, confident. — Selena Gomez

32. 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. — Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

33. I certainly know the difference between right and wrong. — Robert De Niro

34. The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons. — Stan Slap

35. In my world, nothing ever goes wrong. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

36. What’s so wrong with effort, anyway? It means you care. — Mindy Kaling

37. When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long ’till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother’s curse? — T.H. White, The Once and Future King

38. It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race. — Seneca The Elder

39. Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system. — Melinda Gates

40. Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. — Theodor Adorno

41. ‘youth isn’t all it’s cracked up to be either.””Then you’re doing it wrong.’ — Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk

42. Whatever you do you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there will always be someone to tell you that you are wrong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

43. I don’t like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with–that’s the way I was raised–but I just can’t see what’s so wrong about being gay. — Zac Efron

44. But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy. — Walter Dean

45. Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn’t any. But this wrongs the jackass. — Mark Twain

46. When Hate takes center stage you know you’re watching the wrong show — SteveFrmFL

47. Conversations sometimes are so hard to follow.People are so confusing with the wrong facialexpressions for their words. — Tina J. Richardson

48. To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up. — Ogden Nash

49. Nothing is ‘wrong’ with me, Dan. What’s wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily. — Martin Hopkins, Cracks in the Pavement

50. He’s wrong he’s so he’s so wrong he’s more wrong than an upside–down rainbow. — Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

Conclusion

We hope that these quotes have helped you to realize that it is ok to make mistakes, and that it is important to learn from them. There is no such thing as perfection, and it’s ok to not be perfect. Mistakes are a part of life, and they can be used as a learning experience. In the end, it is all about how we choose to react to them.