I’m looking for a saying that goes something like, “I’d rather be _____ than right” or perhaps, “It’s better to be _____ than right”.
Anyone?
There are a lot of hits on Google for “I’d rather be happy than right.” It’s attributed to Douglas Adams in some cases.
Slartibartfast: Science has achieved some wonderful things, I know, but I’d far rather be happy than right any day.
Arthur Dent: And are you?
Slartibartfast: No. That’s where it all falls down, of course.
Arthur Dent: Pity, it sounded like quite a good lifestyle otherwise.
there’s also, “I’d rather be right than be President.” Early American Henry Clay.
There’s also “I’d rather be lucky than good/rich/smart.”
One of my favorites being the only English major in an engineering department.
“It is better to be roughly right than to be precisely wrong.” -John Maynard Keynes
-rainy
I know there’s a song lyric that goes “If loving you is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.”