Wrong
A wrong or being wrong is a concept in law, ethics, epistemology, and science. In a colloquial sense, wrongness usually refers to a state of incorrectness, inaccuracy, error, or miscalculation in any number of contexts. More specifically, being "wrong" refers to a situation wherein an individual has made an error or misjudgment.
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Famous quotes containing the word wrong:
“What men fear most is ending up in the wrong profession; what women fear most is ending up with the wrong man.”
—Chinese proverb.
“But the one thing you shd. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock as not going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch’s greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)