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Quotes About Correction

Those who do wrong unintentionally are in need of instruction, not punishment.
~ Socrates
Even the best writer has to erase
~ Spanish proverb
Deformisano glediste komunisticke propagande je lako ispraviti ali je tesko vratiti pogresnog vidovnjaka na umjesnu ingelektualnu koncepciju. prvi utisak ostaje i postaje predrasuda.
~ Stéphane Courtois
The dark shadow of crime spreads right and left, from the Penitentiary and the Workhouse, over all the institutions, the Asylum, the Alms-House and Charity Hospital; so that, in the minds of the people at large, all suffer alike from an evil repute." Being poor had become a character trait that needed "correction," like the impulse to steal or cheat. The Christian impulse to help the needy had been tamped down and replaced with an inclination to punish them.
~ Stacy Horn
That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.
~ Ayn Rand
Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
~ Barbra Streisand
Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You correct an error by bringing truth to it.
~ Wayne Dyer
Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
~ Mark Twain
A Godless Mindset Can Be Corrected By Proclamation Of The Raw Truth Of God
~ Sunday Adelaja
Rebuke her/him who rejects the kingdom
~ Sunday Adelaja
He looked like a man dangerously addicted to the correction of mistaken people.
~ Michael Chabon
Every systemic market injustice arose from some loophole in a regulation created to correct some prior injustice.
~ Michael Lewis
Benjamin Stallworth understood his shortcomings and was rendered unhappy by that understanding. He was upright enough to wish for correction but too weak to enforce it upon himself.
~ Michael McDowell
No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
~ William Cowper
If you have love, you can correct people without saying anything to them because love is a supreme intelligence.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
hanged. 'It was disclosed that a young white official had been found hanged to death in his cell …' (The New York Times). 'Hanged to death' is redundant. So too, for that matter, are 'starved to death' and 'strangled to death'. The writer was correct, however, in saying that the official had been found hanged and not hung. People are hanged; pictures and the like are hung.
~ Bill Bryson
Nothing is so defective as those laws which correct defects.
~ Blaise Pascal
This house, he told them at last, is disordered and dirty. Its inhabitants have idled away their days in pointless pleasures and in celebrations of past cruelties - things that ought not to be remembered, let alone celebrated. I have often observed it and often regretted it. All these faults, I shall in time set right.
~ Susanna Clarke
It was her false self that was confused, thinking that it knew what ugly was and stewing in it, trying to be good enough when there was no such thing. The ugliness had been corrected a long time ago through forgiveness. It was time to forgive herself and surrender to the truth. She
~ Ted Dekker
The only correction you ever really need is in your perception of who you already are as a child of your Father.
~ Ted Dekker
It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.
~ Julian Paul Assange