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Quotes About Correction

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.
~ George Washington
We like to think that a free market's greatest strength is its self-corrective nature.
~ Nina Easton
Correction badly undertaken creates distance.
~ Kevin Thoman
Evil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience.
~ John of Kronstadt
Discipline comes from the same root word as disciple, and implies patience and teaching on our part. It should not be done in anger.
~ Lynn G. Robbins
Karma means 'action'. Like many, you misunderstand its nature. Past misdeeds can be corrected before your karma ripens: it is not some pre-determined fate. It is what you do now that counts.
~ John Dolan, Everyone Burns
I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.
~ William Brewster
Here is the sequence of steps we have identified in achieving a path of purpose: Inspiring communication with persons outside the immediate family Observation of purposeful people at work First moment of revelation: something important in the world can be corrected or
~ William Damon
Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?
~ William Edgar Stafford
The whole system of social regulation by boards, commissioners, and inspectors consists in relieving negligent people of the consequences of their negligence and so leaving them to continue negligent without correction. That
~ William Graham Sumner
Could it be that the moral imperative not to destroy the means of correcting mistakes is the only moral imperative?
~ David Deutsch
Editors and agents have an uncanny ability to zero in on the very thing you knew—but didn't want to admit—was wrong with your proposal or manuscript.
~ David E. Fessenden
Many duct-taper jobs are the result of a glitch in the system that no one has bothered to correct—tasks that could easily be automated, for instance, but haven't been either because no one has gotten around to it, or because the manager wants to maintain as many subordinates as possible, or because of some structural confusion, or because of some combination of the three.
~ David Graeber
We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.
~ David Hume
The passion for philosophy, like that for religion, involves a certain danger. Although it aims to correct our behaviour and wipe out our vices, it may—through not being handled properly—end up merely encouraging us to carry on in directions that we're already naturally inclined to follow.
~ David Hume
It is never too late to apply good sense as a corrective to stupidity.
~ David Ignatius
This process of error correction is so fundamental to our biology that distinct circuits of the brain appear to coordinate learning that results from error. One of these error correction pathways involves the cerebellum.3 The cerebellum receives electrical information from a part of the brain stem called the inferior olive when a sensory prediction error occurs. The cerebellum uses these error signals to predict and correct for errors that might occur in the future.
~ David J. Linden
God, guide and protect us. When we're wrong, please correct us.
~ Bob Marley
People who have a seeking heart still make mistakes. But their reaction to rebuke and correction shows the condition of that heart. It determines what God is able to do with them in the future.
~ Jim Cymbala
I say this as a big sister in the faith hoping someone might learn an easier way. Arrogance does not bode well. It attracts the rod of God.
~ Beth Moore
If we don't discipline ourselves, God will make certain we are disciplined by others.
~ Jamie Buckingham
That which is called God's wrath, and anger, is a means of discipline.
~ Origen
Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.
~ Star Jones
We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.
~ Anatole France