Why Being Wrong is So Right

Hi Quote Palettes fans. We will be including a FREE PRINT with every order from today until April 15, to celebrate the wonders of being wrong.  What is he talking about, you may be asking?  I recently read "Being Wrong - Adventures in the Margin of Error" by Katherine Schulz, and since then I've never been so gleefully unsure of myself.  Schulz takes you on a journey into the psychology of beliefs and miscues, how we become so convinced we are right, and more importantly, how we deal with information tending to prove otherwise. Not a "how to avoid being wrong" guide, the book is rather more about how our belief systems work and why we should forgive ourselves for mistakes, and indeed embrace the causes and effects of human error.  (Though Schulz is the first to differentiate a minor error of judgment in business that leads to an important lesson, vs. the kind of things we are witnessing today in Japan.)

Fact is, you can't live a full life without making a lot of mistakes.  Understanding how that happens and how to deal with it in a productive, and even lighthearted, way are important life lessons for ourselves as well as for our kids. I highly recommend the book and to help show why being wrong is so right, we'll be including with every order through April 15 one of the quotes listed below, for free.  Let us know which ones you like...........


"It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right." - Molière

"I err, therefore I am." - St. Augustine

"The man who is incapable of making a mistake is incapable of anything." - Abraham Lincoln

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard

"Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen


-Gary @ Quote Palettes

Thank you, Anonymous

Thousands of inspiring, enlightening and entertaining quotes cannot be traced back with certainty to one source. Here are some of our favorite quotes for the wall without a known author. If anyone can show us evidence of the original source of these quotations (sorry, we love Brainyquote but it doesn't count as a primary source), please share your research. Based on our research, however, we will continue to credit these to Anonymous, who also said, "Write a wise saying and your name will live forever." 

To see all Anonymous quotes or get any of these quotes printed for your wall, click here.

-Gary @ Quote Palettes


Friendship
A friend is the first one to come in when all the world goes out.
Happiness
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
Dreams
God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow into them.
Coping
The smartest thing I ever said was, Help me!
I kept looking for somebody to solve the problem. Then I realized I am somebody.
Aging
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.
Time may be a great healer but it's a lousy beautician.
In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at half time.
Humor
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
Life is just a phase you're going through; you'll get over it.
Wisdom
Smart people speak from experience. Smarter people, from experience, don't speak.
Politics
The trouble with political jokes is they get elected.
If voting changed anything they would make it illegal.
The reason academic politics are so bitter is that so little is at stake.
Work
There ought to be a better way to start the day than by getting up in the morning.
Faith
When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep.
The Sexes
Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Life
What a shame to tiptoe carefully through life, only to arrive safely at death.
It takes seventy-two muscles to frown, but only thirteen to smile.
Business
Nothing kills a bad product faster than great marketing.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go, if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.
Amateurs practice until they can get it right; professionals practice until they can't get it wrong.
Diet
Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
Pets
If you want the best seat in the house, move the dog.
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants its breakfast