“He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.”
Henry David Thoreau book A Plea for Captain John Brown
A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)
“This to the right, that to the left hand strays,
And all are wrong, but wrong in different ways.”
Book II, satire iii, line 50 (trans. Conington)
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
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“The way is the beginning of all beings and the measure of right and wrong.”
Han Fei (-279–-232 BC) Chinese philosopher
from "The Way of the Ruler", Han Fei Tzu: Basic Writings, Columbia University Press, New York, 1996. Translated by Burton Watson.
“Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
“Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three lefts do.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
“Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Program 19
Life Is Worth Living (1951–1957)
G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer
In Search of the Miraculous (1949), Ch. 10. p. 203
“It is impossible to recognize a wrong way without knowing the right way.”
G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer
In Search of the Miraculous (1949), Ch. 10. p. 203
Context: It is impossible to recognize a wrong way without knowing the right way. This means that it is no use troubling oneself how to recognize a wrong way. One must think of how to find the right way.