Correct Quotes
1455 Correct quotes by 1105 unique authors
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I'm not politically correct.
— Kary Mullis
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Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular…
— Antonin Scalia
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I can score the basketball, but I think I can pass pretty well or I can make the correct pass. I'm not the type of…
— Kevin Durant
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Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you…
— Italo Calvino
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Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.
— Rachel Hartman
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He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself in order, since…
— Pio of Pietrelcina
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The correct rate of speed in innovating changes in long-standing social customs has not yet been determined by even the most expert of the experts.…
— Mary Barnett Gilson
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Do not be like those on whom advice has no effect and who require punishment to correct themselves.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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If you think of others in a jealous way or if you become angry, immediately pause for a moment. It's going to pull you down…
— Frederick Lenz
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If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our…
— Edward Teller
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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend…
— Bill Nighy
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We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct…
— Charles de Lint
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All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but…
— Ernst Gombrich
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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of…
— Mark Twain
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If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places,…
— Pablo Picasso
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Be eager to lend a patient ear to the opinions of others and think long and hard whether whoever finds fault has reason or not…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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It's become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.
— Christine Lagarde
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I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct.…
— Edgar Degas
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Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
— Dale Carnegie
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In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct…
— Auguste Rodin
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I do not see in what manner practice alone can be sufficient for the production of correct, excellent, and finished pictures. Works deserving this character…
— Joshua Reynolds
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Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.
— Paul Dickson
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We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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