“As in arithmetic-there is only one right answer to a sum, and all other answers are wrong; but some answers are much nearer being right than others.”

“By the time the average person finishes college, he or she will have taken over 2,600 tests, quizzes, and exams. The right answer approach becomes deeply ingrained in our thinking. This may be fine for some mathematical problems where there is in fact only one right answer. The difficulty is that most of life isn’t this way. Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers- all depending on what you’re looking for. But if you think there is only one right answer, then you’ll stop looking as soon as you find one.”

“There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.”

“went to class with all the right answers, then meet the wrong questions.”

“There is not a right and a wrong answer to every question.”

“You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.”