Making predictions is a habit ingrained in man. When we consider ourselves experts in a particular field we tend to shoot sentences, as if we had the truth in our pocket, we feel the need to communicate our feelings to others, almost expecting everyone to give our intuitions for sure. An attitude that can easily row against us, making us look beautiful and unforgettable, especially if there is someone ready to document our words. No matter how intelligent, cultured, intuitive or brilliant, no human being can predict the future.

We use them in speeches, we post them on social media, we have them tattooed on our skin: but what if they weren’t just those, the right words? Here is a series of famous quotes that we have crippled over time. Read the following and find out which are the most famous incorrect quotes.

Incorrect Quotes for Those Times You Find Out You Were Wrong

When there is a misunderstanding and we get to argue or even quarrel with a friend, family member or loved one, sooner or later we feel the desire to put things right with beautiful quotes and messages. Especially if we realize we are wrong or have exaggerated. In these cases, the hardest thing is to put aside the pride that prevents us from recognizing that we were wrong. For those moments we gathered for you incorrect quotes for those times you find out you were wrong. Use it to say that you are sorry and make everything better.

😑Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about. Lindsey Fox

😑It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone when you started to believe they loved you: you’d be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you’re going to be crushed because when you really needed them, they wouldn’t be there. Either that or you’d confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable. Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

😑Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

😑If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. Holly Near

😑It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. Mahatma Gandhi

😑I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe

😑You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself. Anne Lamott

😑Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone deserves a second chance. Mo’ne Davis

😑Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? L.M. Montgomery

😑To err is human, to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

😑Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Napoleon Bonaparte

😑When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way. Paulo Coelho

😑Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

😑Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Mahatma Gandhi

😑Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Mary Tyler Moore

😑Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein

😑If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go. Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

😑Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt

😑I skated, fell down, and learned to pick myself up in front of millions. Michelle Kwan

😑We learn from failure, not from success! Bram Stoker, Dracula

😑You need to give yourself permission to be human. Joyce Brothers

Incorrect Quotes About Doing What is Right

Life constantly forces us to make choices that will change our future forever, sometimes without us realizing it, others in a more evident way. In all cases we must choose a path in front of the many crossroads of life, even if only in order not to risk losing the possibilities that are offered to us and then realize that we have not really lived. The quotes from down below will help you to make the right decision and to do the right thing.

🤗When no one understands, that’s usually a good sign that you’re wrong. Victoria Schwab, Vicious

🤗One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. Alain de Botton

🤗What’s wrong with people?” she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. “Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way? Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

🤗It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. John Maynard Keynes

🤗Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well

🤗You are always a little bit wrong. Hank Green

🤗It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right –especially when one is right. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelms

🤗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?

🤗Psychopaths… people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don’t give a shit. That’s what most of my characters are like. Elmore Leonard

🤗Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Stephen Hunt, The Court of the Air

🤗Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong. L.M. Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea

🤗Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you. Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

🤗Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Benjamin Franklin

🤗My basic principle is that you don’t make decisions because they are easy; you don’t make them because they are cheap; you don’t make them because they’re popular; you make them because they’re right. Heodore Hesburgh

🤗It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right. Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

🤗The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. Mark Twain, What is Man?

🤗Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time. Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

🤗There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey. Chris Heimerdinger, Gadiantons and the Silver Sword

🤗Hard to say what’s right when all I wanna do is wrong. Prince

🤗When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion. Abraham Lincoln

🤗Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it. Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

🤗Do what you think is right. Don’t let people make the decision of right or wrong for you. Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

🤗The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King, Jr

🤗Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings. Robert Bloch

🤗So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

🤗The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. Margaret Chase Smith

🤗There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you’re wrong and you can’t face it; the other is when you’re right and nobody else can face it. Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

Famous False Quotes

Quotes. The message boards of our social networks are full of them: Gandhi, Voltaire, Socrates, Einstein are just some of the great thinkers of history whose most inspiring phrases are reported. But not infrequently it happens that some historical or philological error is committed. Are we sure then that all the quotes we share are true? Read down below and see which are the famous false quotes.

🤨There’s a sucker born every minute. P.T. Barnum (possible source: Adam Forepaugh

🤨Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. Vince Lombardi (he did say it, but did not originate it. It was first said by Red Sanders

🤨Play it again, Sam. Ingrid Bergman (in Casablanca) (misquoted) “Play it Sam

🤨Walk softly and carry a big stick. Teddy Roosevelt (he did say this, but didn’t originate it. It originated from an African proverb

🤨Don’t fire till you see the whites of their eyes. Andrew Jackson (possible correct source: Colonel William Prescott

🤨That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong (misquote) correct phrase: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

🤨Great things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. Abraham Lincoln (true source unknown

🤨The devil is in the details. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (misquote) Correct version: “God is in the details

🤨Life is far too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde (misquoted) “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it

🤨Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. Oscar Wilde (true source unknown

🤨You can’t build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down. John Kasich (possible correct source: Rev. William J. H. Boetcker

🤨Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they tried everything else. Winston Churchill (possible correct source: F. E. Smith

🤨You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. Abraham Lincoln (origins unknown. Bill Clinton used this quote attributing it to Lincoln

🤨Success is not final, Failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill (possible correct source: Don Shula

🤨Bigamy is having a wife too many, monogamy is having the same. Oscar Wilde (true source unknown)

🤨Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe. Albert Einstein (true source unknown)

🤨Elementary my dear Watson. Sherlock Holmes (misquote) appears in, P.G. Wodehouse’s Psmith, Journalist

🤨I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire (correct answer: Evelyn Beatrice Hall

🤨You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. Albert Einstein (possible correct source: Kurt Vonnegut and misquoted from, “Any scientist who couldn’t explain to an eight-year-old what he was doing was a charlatan

🤨Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Benjamin Franklin (true source unknown

🤨Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead (true source unknown

🤨A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. Mark Twain (true source unknown)

🤨Standing on the shoulders of giants. Sir Isaac Newton (possible correct source: Bernard of Chartres

🤨You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf (possible source: Michael Cunningham

🤨If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain. Winston Churchill (possible source: Francois Guizot

🤨There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
Albert Camus (true source unknown

🤨Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. Nelson Mandela (possible source: Marianne Williamson

🤨If you have to ask how much they are, you can’t afford one. J.P. Morgan (misquoted) Correct Version: “You have no right to own a yacht if you ask that question.” – J.P. Morgan

🤨Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal and hoping someone else will get burned. Buddha (misquote) “When we direct anger at another, it comes right back to us—like fine dust thrown against the wind

🤨Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain (true source unknown

🤨Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. Mark Twain, or Jack Benny, or Muhammad Ali (true source unknown

🤨All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke (true source is unknown

🤨Well-behaved women rarely make history. not Marilyn Monroe (possible source: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

🤨The ends justify the means. Niccolo Machiavelli (possible source: Roman poet Ovid

🤨Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein (true source unknown

🤨Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity. Albert Einstein (true source unknown

🤨Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. Dr. Seuss (possible source: Mr. Davies

🤨Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. The Buddha (possible source: Swami Sivananda

🤨The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. Mark Twain (true source unknown

🤨Let them eat cake. Marie Antoinette (possible correct source: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

🤨I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree. George Washington (true source unknown

🤨All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Thomas Jefferson (true source unknown

🤨Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi (true source unknown

🤨Nice guys finish last. Leo Durocher (misquote) Correct version: “Nice guys actually finish seventh

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