Quotes About Correction

Now we can see what makes mathematics unique. Only in mathematics is there no significant correction—only extension. Once the Greeks had developed the deductive method, they were correct in what they did, correct for all time. Euclid was incomplete and his work has been extended enormously, but it has not had to be corrected. His theorems are, every one of them, valid to this day.

The concept of appropriate supervision can be stated in six words: praise for performance—correction for errors.

Her little fists pummeled at him, and he accepted the abuse. Until he realized she'd made an improper fist and was actually hurting herself. He wound an arm around her waist, spun her and slammed her into the hard line of his body to still her. "Let me go!" "In a minute." As she struggled, he pulled her thumb out from beneath her fingers and rearranged her fist. "Hit like this." Done, he released her.

I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

he had another think coming.

For when we allow the arguments of reason to oppose one another with perfect freedom, something useful and serviceable for the correction of our judgements will always result, though it may not always be what we were looking for.

Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active — of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.

a good education is precisely designed to correct the instincts of human nature.

They were scientists enough to admit that they were wrong.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.

He only may chastise who loves.

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; rebuke a wise man and he will love thee.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.

Until we stem the housing correction, until the biggest part of that is behind us and we have more stability in housing prices, we're going to continue to have turmoil in the financial markets.

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects himself without the least bit of delay, his mistakes will disappear.

There is always time to make right what is wrong.

The one who loves you has the right to tick you off, to correct you when you go wrong and admonish you when you repeat.

system that overcompensates is necessarily in overshooting mode

Most mistakes get worse when you try to correct them.

Who gets rewarded, the central banker who avoids a recession or the one who comes to "correct" his predecessors' faults and happens to be there during some economic recovery? Who is more valuable, the politician who avoids a war or the one who starts a new one (and is lucky enough to win)?