Quotes
Quotes about Right
There is no right way to do wrong.
It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
It is better to be roughly right than to be precisely wrong.
On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people is to deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.
Today I am more than ever frightened. I wish it would dawn upon engineers that, in order to be an engineer, it is not enough to be an engineer.
He who seizes the right moment is the right man.
Vague and insignificant forms of speech, and abuse of language have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard and misapplied words, with little or no meaning, have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance, and hindrance of true knowledge.
Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?
The first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
