{"quotes":[{"text":"The clouds were gathering over Mary, too--deep and dark, but of altogether another kind from those that enveloped Letty: no troubles are for one moment to be compared with those that come of the wrongness, even if it be not wickedness, that is our own. Some clouds rise from stagnant bogs and fens; others from the wide, clean, large ocean. But either kind, thank God, will serve the angels to come down by. In the old stories of celestial visitants the clouds do much; and it is oftenest of all down the misty slope of griefs and pains and fears, that the most powerful joy slides into the hearts of men and women and children.","author":"George MacDonald","tags":["grief","joy","pain","troubles","wrongness"],"id":104262,"author_id":"George+MacDonald"},{"text":"It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.","author":"Niels Bohr","tags":["creativity","science","wrongness"],"id":142255,"author_id":"Niels+Bohr"},{"text":"Though I have forgotten the reason, there is spread over everything a vague sense of wrongness, of something amiss. Like in those dreams where nothing terrible occurs—nothing that would sound even remarkable if you told it at breakfast-time—but the atmosphere, the taste, the whole thing is deadly. So with this.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["dreams","grief","wrongness"],"id":158180,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["argue","arguing","argumentation","babble","babbling","correct","craftiness","debate","debating","deceit","english","fallacies","fallacy","funny","funny-but-true","humor","incorrect","justification","language","psychobabble","psychology","redefine","refutation","retorts","self-justification","study","wrongness"],"id":294988,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Stop holding-on to the wrong people. Let them go on their own way; if not for you, then for them.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["growth","holding-on","letting-go","teaching","wrongness"],"id":310034,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"There was something else I couldn't quite define--something that made me uneasy. We were a wrong fit, like unmatching puzzle pieces.","author":"Heather Anastasiu","tags":["wrong","wrongness"],"id":324444,"author_id":"Heather+Anastasiu"},{"text":"There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["correctness","development","discovery","empiricism","genius","hindsight","learning","mistakes","regrets","retrospect","revelation","understanding","wrongness"],"id":375012,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["arrogance","beliefs","burden","certainty","confidence","contradiction","contradictions","ego","envy","facts","grace","honesty","human","humility","idea","imperfection","knowing","knowledge","life","lowliness","mercy","mistakes","narcissism","not-knowing","opinions","pain","perfection","philosophy","pride","righteousness","science","security","sin","sorrow","theology","uncertainty","weakness","wisdom","wrongness"],"id":430941,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}