A Quote by John Tukey

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.

John Tukey

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John Tukey
American - Scientist
June 16, 1915 - July 26, 2000

I don't know that I could draw one that's perfect. But I'd rather by approximately right than precisely wrong, and it would be precisely wrong to turn it down.

Warren Buffett

It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.

John Tukey

We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather than approximately right

John Banham

I would rather commit a sin of commission than a sin of omission, and the evangelical community is exactly the opposite. The evangelical community would rather not do something wrong and the price they're willing to pay for not doing something wrong is they're willing to fail to do something right; they're so afraid of making a mistake. Now the reason they're afraid of making a mistake is they're cowards and our community produces cowards.

J.P. Moreland

When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.

William J. Clinton

I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

Elon Musk

I'd rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

John Maynard Keynes

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Tallulah Bankhead

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

Jodi Picoult

I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.

Holly Lisle

I'd rather be wrong to set you free than be right to do you harm (162).

Claudia Gray

Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.

Maimonides

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

Orrin Woodward

I would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude.

Chuck Smith

Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

James Joyce

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