Correcting Quotes

121 quotes by 110 authors

I know just as well what to teach this people and just what to say to them and what to do in order to bring… — Brigham Young
The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it. The… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting… — Benjamin Franklin
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. — Milton Friedman
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over.… — Jack Nicklaus
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from… — Quintilian
It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task. — Donald Rumsfeld
When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A… — Harper Lee
One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad… — Carl Sagan
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The woman frowned. "I probably should have mentioned that annoying habit of letting people come to the wrong conclusions and not correcting them? He got… — Ilona Andrews
To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. Thatâ€™s perfectly all right: itâ€™s the aperture to finding out whatâ€™s right. Science is a self-correcting… — Carl Sagan
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality… — Iain Pears
On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it… — Deepak Chopra
Your race devotes itself to justifying its errors, not correcting them — Karen Marie Moning
Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if weâ€™re all… — John Green
I donâ€™t even know what Iâ€™m writing, I have no idea, I donâ€™t know anything, and Iâ€™m not reading over it, and Iâ€™m not correcting… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn't know I had, correcting as I fell. — Ally Carter
Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range… — Paul Johnson

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