“Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
This also appears in Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act II
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
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“Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
This also appears in Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act II
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
“You are neither right nor wrong because people agree with you.”
Benjamin Graham (1894–1976) American investor
As quoted by Warren Buffett, in an interview in Forbes magazine (1 November 1974)
“Stephenie Meyer: Her vampires are sparkly, which I think we can all agree is wrong.”
Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy
“What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to John Adams (11 January 1817) This statement has been referred to as "Jefferson's Axiom"
1810s
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Queen of Zombie Hearts
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity