Sentence examples for believing the wrong thing from inspiring English sources

The only blue-print of how not to do it is volunteered by the deputy dean, Dr Peter Foot: "America went into Vietnam believing the wrong thing at the start - thinking they were fighting a conventional war with guerrilla bits bolted on - and they never recovered".

Because not knowing is even worse than believing the wrong thing.

For others, it means killing people for believing the wrong things, or believing in the wrong way.

For some Jews, this is a parody of a faith that is brim full of God's glory; for others, it is a welcome description of a religion whose strength is that the heretic is not the person who believes the wrong thing, but who does the wrong thing.

Were Hitler and Stalin just terribly misguided folk, whose only flaw was that they believed the wrong things, and pursued them vigorously?

But that's what we do, we blame the victim for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, wearing the wrong thing, believing the wrong person, drinking the wrong drink..

He did seem to believe that there is a single, underlying pattern to the development of mature sciences that is key to their success, hence that there is a neat overall solution to the question of how to explain scientific progress (a question that many in the science studies disciplines believe is the wrong thing to ask).

They're believing all the wrong things are right because everybody else is doing it.

Writers who have the power to use words in terms of belief and action are responsible to that power not to make people believe in the wrong things".

Ms Spurrell said: "I am extremely saddened and disappointed with this decision and believe it is the wrong thing to do for the people of Merseyside who voted for a Labour Police and Crime Commissioner to put Labour values at the heart of policing.

Two days later, Beshear announced the reversal of the state police's new policy, saying he was not informed of it and believed it was the wrong thing to do.