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This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he knows that this… — Michael Chekhov
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. — Plutarch
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors. — Livy
Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more… — Charles Babbage
I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique which… — Lester Horton
Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards...There's going to be… — Rush Limbaugh
The correct unit of study is not the play; it is the scene. — David Mamet
On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is too meagre, too… — Emanuel Lasker
My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones. — George Soros
Even in high school, a rule that permits only one point of view to be expressed is less likely to produce correct answers than the… — John Paul Stevens
The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of… — Margery Allingham
I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches — Patricia Highsmith
Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or… — Zbigniew Herbert
Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. — Emile M. Cioran
Any parent wants what is best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what… — Tony Blair
The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated… — Anaxagoras
In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it.… — Garry Winogrand
As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so… — Kenneth Grahame
What could be any more correct for any people than to see with their own eyes? — Molefi Kete Asante
If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will not correct them. — Nathaniel Branden

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