The praise from being right becomes the pain from being wrong.

Flog me if you wish," she said, though her trembling hands belied her brave words. "It will not change the fact that you were wrong, and I was right!

Second, being wrong hurts us more than being right feels good. We know from Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky's work on loss aversion, part of prospect theory (which won Kahneman the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002), that losses in general feel about two times as bad as wins feel good. So winning $100 at blackjack feels as good to us as losing $50 feels bad to us. Because being right feels like winning and being wrong feels like losing, that means we need two favorable results for every one unfavorable result just to break even emotionally. Why not live a smoother existence, without the swings, especially when the losses affect us more intensely than the wins?

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

Being right does not always bring satisfaction,

Remember, losing feels about twice as bad as winning feels good; being wrong feels about twice as bad as being right feels good. We are in a better place when we don't have to live at the edges. Euphoria or misery, with no choices in between, is not a very self-compassionate way to live.

When you are in the wrong, be quick to chastise yourself more severely than the aggrieved might. Paradoxically, this can soften their ire.

You can be right or you can be happy.

People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right — especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong.

It's about wrong and less wrong. Bad and less bad.

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

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