Correction Quotes

192 quotes by 171 authors

There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what… — Simone de Beauvoir
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for… — Charles Darwin
We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out… — Edward de Bono
Grace cannot be confused with righteousness. Grace is receiving what we do not deserve; mercy is not receiving what we do deserve. Righteousness, on the… — Francis Frangipane
Thanks to His Majesty," the magus said, and my father seemed startled at the correction but not displeased. He looked thoroughly satisfied and very much… — Megan Whalen Turner
But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It… — Alan Watts
Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction. — Sam Harris
of all the unusual features of Stargirl, this struck me as the most remarkable. Bad things did not stick to her. Correction: her bad things… — Jerry Spinelli
THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value… — Jonathan Franzen
If you think of this world as a place simply intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place… — C.S. Lewis
Itâ€™s, like, one of them drug dealer boats,â€ Vic says, looking through his magic sight. â€œFive guys on it. Headed our way.â€ He fires another… — Neal Stephenson
Use the prise de fer!" Shelby called. "Lilith sucks at the prise de fer. Correction: Lilith sucks at everything, but especially the prise de fer. — Lauren Kate
Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction. — James A. Owen
Eric Seven does not believe in love at first sight. He corrects himself. Even in that moment, the moment that it happens, he fees his… — Marcus Sedgwick
These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own business. Not to… — Mother Teresa
Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that. — Myles Munroe
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the… — James Randi
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become… — Agnes de Mille
Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of… — Deepak Chopra

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