But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient. Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.
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Related You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that migh... SARAH GILBERT Its not smart basketball, that's what it is. Your in the wrong position with your feet, or we're dow... ERIC SITZE The different between the smart and the stupid is that the smart make mistakes, but the stupid makes... ADDO K. KAUTAMA WRONG Person can sometimes be RIGHT BUT WRONG Mind can never be RIGHT!! VIPIN ONGALATHE It is much better to do the right thing wrong than the wrong thing right, because when errors are co... RUSSELL ACKOFF Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpecte... LEILA SALES Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place. MANDY HALE The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that yo... ABIGAIL DISNEY Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid. 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TAO LIN The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the ... JOHN GREEN What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c... DONNA TARTT [D]on't be so smart that you act stupid. DANA ALISON LEVY Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don... PHILIP PULLMAN I think sometimes there is no right thing. ROSAMUND HODGE You have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes y... PHILIPPA GREGORY I'm too old to figure out the rights and wrongs of everything. BARBARA ELSE Sometimes it's right to do the wrong thing. FINIAN WHISH Right or Wrong, most times, merely depends on perspective. It takes humility (not necessarily logic)... UFUOMA APOKI There are four types of people: Smart and lazy, Smart and full of energy, Stupid and lazy, Stupi... 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HUSSEIN WAEL SHAHADHA They were just people. They were too smart and too stupid to be anything else. ADAM REX Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing. TONY BLAIR Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with. ALICE HOFFMAN (PRACTICAL MAGIC) Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with. ALICE HOFFMAN A person who is an ethically right has to only fight for own rights against the big battalion of the... ANUJ SOMANY They just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the right thing. JAMES RUSSELL It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who i... LEMONY SNICKET “Keep your Smart friends CLOSE and your Stupid friends CLOSER.” MAGED MAHROUS Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong. WINSTON CHURCHILL Sometimes we need to feel stupid to realize how wrong we are. AILANY ICASSATTI It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it i... M. RUSSELL BALLARD Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons. AMELIE MAURESMO Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right. CARL SCHURZ Our country, right or wrong! When right, to be kept right; when
wrong, to be put right! CARL (KARL) SCHURZ Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right. CARL SCHURZ No one is right, or wrong. They are just being themselves. Right or wrong is your perception of them... AZMATH PASHA You can't fix stupid you can educate an idiot but it won't make him smart. ANDONI GARCIA You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be... ASHLEY TISDALE So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Right and wrong is a matter of perspective. GEMEI People are complicated puzzles, always trying to piece together a complete picture, but sometimes we... ADAM SILVERA Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right. SHERRILYN KENYON People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave. JAMES RANDI We live in an era of smart phones and stupid people.... Go figure. ZIAD K. ABDELNOUR You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong ... PHILIP ROTH And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right. RAY BRADBURY you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction? ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You may have a dog that won't sit up, roll over or even cook breakfast, not because she's too stupid... RICK HOROWITZ I told my girls if they played smart and Crandall tried to stall, they'd be playing right into our h... ROBERT COCHRAN The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i... DOUGLAS ADAMS The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i... DOUGLAS ADAMS I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smar... LARRY WALL We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough rel... ANDREW BOYD A human has to be that smart, to know how stupid he needs to be. RUBEN PAPIAN Wrong is wrong though everyone is doing it. Right is always right though no one is doing it. Be alar... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's ... TABATHA COFFEY children are the most important people in the world, no matter what happens they always be yours. so... MIKE GRIST A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.' 'It's just not right,' sai... JOHN MARSDEN Just one of those things. When you come into this type of territory, you've just got to play smart a... ANTONIO BRYANT To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Sometimes you do have a lot of minutes, but it's crunch time. We know when we're out there we give o... ANTAWN JAMISON And sometimes holes want to get bigger, but Baz was wrong—sometimes they just want to be filled. RAINBOW ROWELL you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take... PAULO COELHO Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do... MARK TWAIN But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as ... JOHN LANCHESTER Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD Sometimes you have to do wrong to do right. JENNIFER DONNELLY What is wrong is wrong and what is right is right. If it is therefore wrong to do what is wrong, the... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH What I was wrong about was not realizing that in my saying those things in the way I said them had p... GLENN LOURY Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid.... DOUGLAS ADAMS In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the w... WILLEM DAFOE Some of it was a lack of killer instinct or focus or desperation. But sometimes the ball just bounce... MIKE D'ANTONI Stupid is the New Smart. RICHIE NORTON Smart people have the brains, but stupid people have the balls ANA SáEZ GONZáLEZ Because you may be smart, but I’ve been smart longer. JOHN GREEN No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time ... CHARLES E. WILSON Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusi... JODI PICOULT Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving ... SETH GODIN Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. 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