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Quotes About Correction

during his four voyages. And it was a mistake that would be corrected only at the cost of great suffering
~ Laurence Bergreen
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Do you imagine --" Mr. Lorry had begun, when Miss Pross took him up short with: "Never imagine anything. Have no imagination at all." "I stand corrected; do you suppose -- you go so far as to suppose, sometimes?" "Now and then," said Miss Pross.
~ Charles Dickens
He dicho: ¡Que Dios los bendiga! —corrige el primero, volviendo bruscamente la cabeza. —Yo he dicho ¡Que Dios los salve! —insiste el segundo—. ¿Encuentra usted alguna diferencia?
~ Charles Dickens
As soon as you see a mistake and don't fix it, it becomes your mistake.
~ Author Unknown
Barça had finished the league eighteen points behind Madrid the previous season and, at times like that, sportsmen typically need somebody to show them the way, point out to them how to correct mistakes.
~ Guillem Balagué
We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.
~ Helene Cixous
Sometimes life offers you the opportunity to put it right.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
the quickest, efficient, least expensive way to educate a man is to make it painful for him when he is wrong, the same as with any other animal.
~ James Jones
But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places.
~ David Kay
It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.
~ Judith Martin
Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.
~ Helene Cixous
Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and this prevent their correction.
~ Thomas I. Emerson
Science is unique among human ways of knowing because it is self-correcting. Every
~ Thomas Levenson
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
~ Thurgood Marshall
I'm actually thinking about maybe, on a spacewalk, not wearing my glasses. I normally wear those both for reading and a little bit of a distance correction, but the distance vision seems like it's gotten a little bit better. So I might go without.
~ Scott Kelly
I'm not saying its right to break the law. I'm not talkin about that—but these prisons as they exist are wrong.
~ Norman Mailer
Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Los sabios no son sabios porque no cometan errores. Son sabios porque corrigen sus errores en cuanto los reconocen.
~ Orson Scott Card
Senza Fermezza, il gentiluomo non riscuote rispetto ed il suo sapere non sarà ascoltato. | Preconizzando lealtà e fidatezza, non avrà amici che sono simili a se stesso. | Non esiterà a correggere i suoi errori
~ Confúcio
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
~ Confucius
15.30 The Master said, "Having gone astray, to fail to get right back on track is to stray indeed.
~ Confucius
Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of the one I copy, the bad points of the other I correct in myself.
~ Confucius ??
The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.
~ Dale Carnegie