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

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

People can be sincere — and sincerely wrong.

I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong

Of those who want us to be wrong and those who want us to be right.

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

They are entitled to their opinion, but they suffer from the notable disadvantage of being completely wrong.

The secret of being wrong isn’t to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong.

People don't like being convinced that they're wrong. In fact, our brains are unmatched in their ability to self-justify, to make us feel that we are right and to shut out any information that contradicts that. On a purely logical level, most people aren't going to be moved on a incorrect belief they have by arguing with them about it.

To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride. Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Being wrong about important things is exhausting.

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