“There is right and there is wrong, I have NEVER been wrong.”
John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
Source: Pink Flamingos and Other Filth: Three Screenplays
“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.”
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“As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.”
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility
Variant: 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?
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.”
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
“I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.”
Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Rome, or Reason? A Reply to Cardinal Manning. Part I. The North American Review (1888)
Karl Popper (1902–1994) Austrian-British philosopher of science
On Freedom (1958)
Context: The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince; all the time he is aware that he may be wrong. Above all, he values the intellectual independence of others too highly to want to convince them in important matters. He would much rather invite contradiction, preferably in the form of rational and disciplined criticism. He seeks not to convince but to arouse — to challenge others to form free opinions.
“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.”
Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, lin…
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night (1885) Terminal Essay: Social Conditions, fn. 13.