Correction Quotes

192 quotes by 171 authors

Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers. — Leah Price
The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality. — Sigmund Freud
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be… — Harriet Martineau
The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of… — Henry James Sumner Maine
I told him about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way they flatter you by wanting to know… — Amy Hempel
You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well… — Wendell Berry
I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point? — Claire Messud
The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil. — Laozi
An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just… — Miranda July
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail. — Philip Sidney
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete,… — Paul the Apostle
He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts… — Ivan Turgenev
He sometimes felt that life was something that had already risen, and all of this, the Jackson Pollack of spring, summer, and fall, the vague… — Tao Lin
Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism and correction and… — Antonya Nelson
All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that… — John Stuart Mill
With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see… — Ingeborg Bachmann
...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that… — Sigmund Freud
Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for this reason that… — Kevin Vanhoozer
The new one actually reads, but only to pass judgment. This is the way kids learn today. Someone told them how you feel is more… — Allegra Goodman
We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction. — Elisabeth Elliot

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